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SvelteKit Session Storage: Cache Form Data # SvelteKit Session Storage: Cache Form Data #

SvelteKit Session Storage: Cache Form Data #

Published: 6 months ago

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🖥 SvelteKit Session Storage: Cache Form Data #

Here we look at how you can use Session Storage in SvelteKit to cache form data temporarily. You might use this code on a form or on a page where a user can potentially enter a long piece of text. User's often run JavaScript blockers like NoScript to protect their privacy. A downside is when your site needs to run third party JavaScript in the process of submitting a form, the user might end up having to refresh their browser and lose the details they just entered. This happens because once the user enables the necessary JavaScript to load on the page, the plugin refreshes the window (so the previously blocked JavaScript actually loads). This can provide a frustrating user experience.

In this video we see how you can use SvelteKit Session Storage to repopulate the form fields if the browser refreshes. We also see how to bind a form field to a JavaScript variable and finally how to clear data stored in Session Storage. If you think there's something in there for you to learn, then let's crank up the video and see how it all works!

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How familiar are you with binding form values and event dispatching in SvelteKit?

🖥 SvelteKit Session Storage: Code #

src/routes/+page.svelte — click to expand code.

src/routes/+page.svelte

svelte

    1 <script>
2 	import { browser } from '$app/environment';
3 	import '@fontsource/source-sans-pro';
4 	import { EmailInputField, TextArea, TextInputField } from '@rodneylab/sveltekit-components';
5 
6 	export let form;
7 
8 	let name = browser ? window.sessionStorage.getItem('name') ?? '' : '';
9 	let email = browser ? window.sessionStorage.getItem('email') ?? '' : '';
10 	let message = browser ? window.sessionStorage.getItem('message') ?? '' : '';
11 
12 	function sessionStore(field, value) {
13 		if (browser) window.sessionStorage.setItem(field, value);
14 	}
15 
16 	function clearForm() {
17 		if (browser) {
18 			sessionStorage.removeItem('name');
19 			sessionStorage.removeItem('email');
20 			sessionStorage.removeItem('message');
21 		}
22 		name = '';
23 		email = '';
24 		message = '';
25 	}
26 
27 	form?.success && clearForm();
28 </script>
29 
30 <main class="container">
31 	<div class="content">
32 		<h1>Write a message</h1>
33 		<form method="POST" class="form">
34 			<TextInputField
35 				value={name}
36 				id="contact-name"
37 				name="contact-name"
38 				placeholder="Blake Costa"
39 				title="Name"
40 				on:update={(event) => {
41 					sessionStore('name', event.detail);
42 					name = event.detail;
43 				}}
44 				style="padding-bottom:1.25rem;margin-right:1rem"
45 			/>
46 			<EmailInputField
47 				value={email}
48 				id="contact-email"
49 				name="contact-email"
50 				placeholder="[email protected]"
51 				title="Email"
52 				error={form?.error}
53 				on:update={(event) => {
54 					sessionStore('email', event.detail);
55 					email = event.detail;
56 				}}
57 				style="padding-bottom:1.25rem;margin-right:1rem"
58 			/>
59 			<TextArea
60 				value={message}
61 				id="contact-message"
62 				name="contact-message"
63 				placeholder="Enter your message here"
64 				title="Message"
65 				on:update={(event) => {
66 					sessionStore('message', event.detail);
67 					message = event.detail;
68 				}}
69 				style="padding-bottom:1.25rem;margin-right:1rem"
70 			/>
71 			<div class="button-container">
72 				<button type="submit">Send your message</button>
73 			</div>
74 		</form>
75 	</div>
76 </main>

src/routes/+page.server.js — click to expand code.

src/routes/+page.server.js

javascript

    1 import { validEmail } from '$lib/utilities/form';
2 import { error, invalid } from '@sveltejs/kit';
3 
4 export const actions = {
5 	default: async ({ request }) => {
6 		try {
7 			const form = await request.formData();
8 			const name = form.get('contact-name');
9 			const email = form.get('contact-email');
10 			const message = form.get('contact-message');
11 
12 			const errors = { ...validEmail(email) };
13 
14 			if (!errors.email) {
15 				console.log({ name, email, message });
16 				return { success: true };
17 			}
18 
19 			return invalid(400, { 'contact-email': email, error: errors.email });
20 		} catch (err) {
21 			const message = `Error in /login form: ${err}`;
22 			console.error(message);
23 			return error(500, message);
24 		}
25 	},
26 };

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