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Persisting Kanban state to localStorage

Persisting Kanban state to localStorage

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Persisting Kanban state to localStorage

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Welcome to this session on persisting your Kanban board's state to local storage. This is a crucial step to ensure your users don't lose their work when they close the browser tab. By the end of this session, your Kanban board will seamlessly save and load its state, providing a much better user experience. At the moment, if you edit tasks then refresh the page, you lose all changes. Moving to kanbanboard.jsx. Now I am adding the UseEffect hook from React. This hook lets us perform side effects in functional components, perfect for interacting with the browser's local storage. Let's create a UseEffect inside our component. This hook will save columns to local storage whenever they change. I am adding columns as a dependency to the UseEffect hook. This ensures the effect runs whenever the column state changes. Let's add the line to actually save the data to local storage inside the UseEffect callback. For now, I am leaving a placeholder for the value we want to save. Now you will see…

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