Missing Technologies: Keeping Application State

[janl]

Native apps, at least on iOS, are trained to restore a specific application state that reflects what the user saw the last time they were in the app. Because mobile apps can be retired for memory or battery reasons at any time, they need to be able to restore their state. iOS comes with system APIs that help with that.

On the web app front, this isn’t an established pattern and existing tools don’t have this built in, or make it easy. Please comment with counter examples!

[michielbdejong]

good point! shouldn't be so hard to build this into router frameworks - just always store the current route in localStorage or IndexedDB, right?

[ghost]

store the current route in localStorage or IndexedDB

Or the whole DOM, then you also capture page state.