Persist previous state upon page refresh
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Hello, it would be nice if react-devtools can remember user's search term / selection / tree expansion state / etc. upon refreshing the page in browser.
This would be a nice addition and doesn't seem super complicated. Contributions welcome :)
Here's how I would do it:
- store that state in the chrome extension's "background page", keyed by the tabid
- on refresh, try to expand, and if it doesn't work (e.g. nodes not rendered yet) try again in a second or so...
- you'd probably also want to make sure to clean up the stored data when the tab closes
I'd like to give it a try
I would probably store displayName and key path. This is as accurate as it gets IMO. I wouldn't rely on any IDs.
React DevTools has been rewritten and recently launched a new version 4 UI. The source code for this rewrite was done in a separate repository and now lives in the main React repo (github.com/facebook/react).
Because version 4 was a total rewrite, and all issues in this repository are related to the old version 3 of the extension, I am closing all issues in this repository. If you can still reproduce this issue, or believe this feature request is still relevant, please open a new issue in the React repo: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/new?labels=Component:%20Developer%20Tools
FWIW the rewrite has this feature. :-)