How to change particle colour with react-particle-js

I'm using react-particle-js and I can't seem to change the colour of the particles or the link lines, I'm using regular particle.js syntax because a lot of it is similar, can't find a solution in the docs either. Here's what I've got so far for the particle config:

const particleOpts = {
particles:{
    number:{
        value:150,
        density: {
            enable:true,
            value_area: 1000
        },
        "color": {
            "value": "#005496"
        }
    }
}

On the website with an example of the particles you can download the current config.

It says the color should be in particles not number as you have it.

particlesconfig.json

{
  "particles": {
    "number": {
      "value": 80,
      "density": {
        "enable": true,
        "value_area": 800
      }
    },
    "color": {
      "value": "#0000ff"
    },
    ....
}