diff --git a/src/browser/pages/vscode.ts b/src/browser/pages/vscode.ts
index 379a66695..9cb9b53e1 100644
--- a/src/browser/pages/vscode.ts
+++ b/src/browser/pages/vscode.ts
@@ -95,8 +95,64 @@ try {
   console.error(error)
 }
 
-try {
-  document.body.style.background = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("colorThemeData")!).colorMap["editor.background"]
-} catch (error) {
-  // Oh well.
+export function setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document: Document, localStorage: Storage) {
+  const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+
+  if (!document) {
+    throw new Error(`${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Document is undefined.`)
+  }
+
+  if (!localStorage) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. localStorage is undefined.`,
+    )
+  }
+
+  const colorThemeData = localStorage.getItem("colorThemeData")
+
+  if (!colorThemeData) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Could not find colorThemeData in localStorage.`,
+    )
+  }
+
+  let _colorThemeData
+  try {
+    // We wrap this JSON.parse logic in a try/catch
+    // because it can throw if the JSON is invalid.
+    // and instead of throwing a random error
+    // we can throw our own error, which will be more helpful
+    // to the end user.
+    _colorThemeData = JSON.parse(colorThemeData)
+  } catch {
+    throw new Error(
+      `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Could not parse colorThemeData from localStorage.`,
+    )
+  }
+
+  const hasColorMapProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(_colorThemeData, "colorMap")
+  if (!hasColorMapProperty) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. colorThemeData is missing colorMap.`,
+    )
+  }
+
+  const editorBgColor = _colorThemeData.colorMap["editor.background"]
+
+  if (!editorBgColor) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. colorThemeData.colorMap["editor.background"] is undefined.`,
+    )
+  }
+
+  document.body.style.background = editorBgColor
+
+  return null
+}
+
+try {
+  setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+} catch (error) {
+  console.error("Something went wrong setting the body background to the theme background color.")
+  console.error(error)
 }
diff --git a/test/unit/browser/vscode.test.ts b/test/unit/browser/vscode.test.ts
index 80246c7db..81ddeed14 100644
--- a/test/unit/browser/vscode.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/browser/vscode.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
  * @jest-environment jsdom
  */
 import { JSDOM } from "jsdom"
-import { getNlsConfiguration, nlsConfigElementId } from "../../../src/browser/pages/vscode"
+import {
+  getNlsConfiguration,
+  nlsConfigElementId,
+  setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor,
+} from "../../../src/browser/pages/vscode"
 
 describe("vscode", () => {
   describe("getNlsConfiguration", () => {
@@ -58,4 +62,117 @@ describe("vscode", () => {
       document.body.removeChild(mockElement)
     })
   })
+  describe("setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor", () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      // We need to set the url in the JSDOM constructor
+      // to prevent this error "SecurityError: localStorage is not available for opaque origins"
+      // See: https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom/issues/2304#issuecomment-622314949
+      const { window } = new JSDOM("", { url: "http://localhost" })
+      global.document = window.document
+      global.localStorage = window.localStorage
+    })
+    it("should return null", () => {
+      const test = {
+        colorMap: {
+          [`editor.background`]: "#ff3270",
+        },
+      }
+      localStorage.setItem("colorThemeData", JSON.stringify(test))
+
+      expect(setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)).toBeNull()
+
+      localStorage.removeItem("colorThemeData")
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if Document is undefined", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Document is undefined.`
+
+      expect(() => {
+        // @ts-expect-error We need to test when document is undefined
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(undefined, localStorage)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if localStorage is undefined", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. localStorage is undefined.`
+
+      expect(() => {
+        // @ts-expect-error We need to test when localStorage is undefined
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, undefined)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if it can't find colorThemeData in localStorage", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Could not find colorThemeData in localStorage.`
+
+      expect(() => {
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if there is an error parsing colorThemeData from localStorage", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. Could not parse colorThemeData from localStorage.`
+
+      localStorage.setItem(
+        "colorThemeData",
+        '{"id":"vs-dark max-SS-Cyberpunk-themes-cyberpunk-umbra-color-theme-json","label":"Activate UMBRA protocol","settingsId":"Activate "errorForeground":"#ff3270","foreground":"#ffffff","sideBarTitle.foreground":"#bbbbbb"},"watch\\":::false}',
+      )
+
+      expect(() => {
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+
+      localStorage.removeItem("colorThemeData")
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if there is no colorMap property", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. colorThemeData is missing colorMap.`
+
+      const test = {
+        id: "hey-joe",
+      }
+      localStorage.setItem("colorThemeData", JSON.stringify(test))
+
+      expect(() => {
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+
+      localStorage.removeItem("colorThemeData")
+    })
+    it("should throw an error if there is no editor.background color", () => {
+      const errorMsgPrefix = "[vscode]"
+      const errorMessage = `${errorMsgPrefix} Could not set body background to theme background color. colorThemeData.colorMap["editor.background"] is undefined.`
+
+      const test = {
+        id: "hey-joe",
+        colorMap: {
+          editor: "#fff",
+        },
+      }
+      localStorage.setItem("colorThemeData", JSON.stringify(test))
+
+      expect(() => {
+        setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+      }).toThrowError(errorMessage)
+
+      localStorage.removeItem("colorThemeData")
+    })
+    it("should set the body background to the editor background color", () => {
+      const test = {
+        colorMap: {
+          [`editor.background`]: "#ff3270",
+        },
+      }
+      localStorage.setItem("colorThemeData", JSON.stringify(test))
+
+      setBodyBackgroundToThemeBackgroundColor(document, localStorage)
+
+      // When the body.style.backgroundColor is set using hex
+      // it is converted to rgb
+      // which is why we use that in the assertion
+      expect(document.body.style.backgroundColor).toBe("rgb(255, 50, 112)")
+
+      localStorage.removeItem("colorThemeData")
+    })
+  })
 })