currently, every time i make changes, my state resets

also, I'm use hooks if that makes a difference

I save state to local storage and then read it back out.

(defn ^:dev/before-load stop
  []
  (save-my-state @app-state))

(defn ^:dev/after-load start
  []
  (reset! app-state (read-my-state)))

that's clever, but sounds more like a hack to me

If I just defonce then the state persists across code changes. Is that what you want?

ah i think that works, but i don't believe it works with hooks

Oh, you’re saying you have hooks in shadow to build the css?

sorry, i meant react hooks 🙂

https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/fast-refresh

its taken for granted in modern React frameworks that your state gets preserved when making changes

what's interesting is that inspiration for fast refresh arguably came from clojurescript world (figwheel), but seems like we've regressed as a community. defonce only works if you're using a central state atom

I see, thanks I didn’t know for sure what you meant by “fast refresh”.

but not if you're doing react hooks for local component state

I don’t have any state in my components so I don’t know how to help you with this.

Interesting though.

no problem, thanks for taking the time!

You’re welcome.

https://github.com/lilactown/helix/blob/master/docs/experiments.md#fast-refresh

@UPD88PGNT thanks for going the extra mile to dig that up! It means a lot to me!

I just happened across it and thought I should share. glhf!

https://github.com/alandipert/storage-atom

I like to limit disk reads / writes if possible since I'm paranoid about preserving the life of SSDs and not hammering it if not necessary 😅 . It's probably OCD, but I really can't help think about that. I prefer sessions to remain in memory (faster as well) and only persisted when truly needed.

but still cool, thanks for sharing!