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’”

  • perchance@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    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.