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[Tip] A cute way to remember text inputs (without the remember-plugin) (self.perchance)

submitted 6 months ago by perchance to c/perchance

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This likely won't be relevant to a lot of devs here, because the remember plugin does the job fine in most cases, but:

Here's a normal text input (id is not needed for this example, but is almost always needed so adding it here):

<input id="thingyInput">

And here's one which remembers what you type into it even after page refresh:

<input id="thingyInput" oninput="localStorage.thingy=this.value" value="[localStorage.thingy || '']">

Of course, the remember-plugin can do this for you, but I often find myself reaching for the above pattern for its simplicity.

localStorage is what the remember-plugin uses behind the scenes - whatever you store in it will be persisted even after page refresh. It's a built-in browser/JavaScript feature - not something that's specific to Perchance.

The || '' in [localStorage.thingy || ''] means or ''. In other words, it means or output nothing. If you want a default value for when the user loads the page for the first time, you could write [localStorage.thingy || 'blah'] which means "use whatever is in localStorage.thingy if it exists, otherwise use 'blah'"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember this one using only the localStorage thing and I think I'm actually using this in some of my generators. After trying this a bit, I found a benefit from using this method, that the data will stay in the input even if the generator is reloaded through the feature when editing the generator's code.

Using the remember plugin, in normal circumstances, that would reset the value when it's auto-reloading. And I'd also like this kind of behavior to be implemented right into the plugin so that remembered variables (and not just the user inputs) can retain its value even when auto-reloading generators.

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago

Ah good point. I think for this what I'd ideally need is a global 'onUpdate' function so plugins can 'do something' when the update function is called (as happens with the auto-reload checkbox thing). There are hacky ways to do this (effectively "wrapping" the update function), but it might be about time for a proper solution.