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Discussion on: Improving the way of saving posts on Dev.to while writing.

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Basti Ortiz

This is a very interesting proposal. It's so simple that I'm now wondering why this has not become a feature yet.

@ben Any thoughts on this?

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Mohammad Aziz

Thanks, @somedood you liked the proposal. I definitely want to hear what @ben thinks about it.

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rhymes

You're right, the editor would be better with some sort of autosave capabilities.

@aspittel is working on it ;-)

[WIP] Feature/autosave editor #1633

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aspittel commented on Jan 23, 2019

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

  • [ ] Refactor
  • [x] Feature
  • [ ] Bug Fix
  • [ ] Documentation Update

Description

Add base functionality for autosaving drafts

Related Tickets & Documents

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

Mobile & Desktop Screenshots/Recordings (if there are UI changes)

Added to documentation?

  • [ ] docs.dev.to
  • [ ] readme
  • [ ] no documentation needed
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Ali Spittel

Yes! it's pretty much there -- will get merged soon!

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Basti Ortiz

Thanks, @aspittel !

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Mohammad Aziz

@aspittel , I did know you were working on this. Looks like you too using localStorage for it. 😄

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Ali Spittel

yep!

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Mohammad Aziz

Cool! Thanks for making this much wanted feature.