React-LocalStorage

Simply synchronize a component's state with localStorage, when available.

Usage

A simple component:

var React = require('react');
var LocalStorageMixin = require('react-localstorage');

var TestComponent = module.exports = React.createClass({
  displayName: 'TestComponent',
  // This is all you need to do
  mixins: [LocalStorageMixin],

  getInitialState: function() {
    return {counter: 0};
  },

  onClick: function() {
    this.setState({counter: this.state.counter + 1});
  },

  render: function() {
    return (
      <span onClick={this.onClick}>{this.state.counter}</span>
    );
  }
});

Options

The key that state is serialized to under localStorage is chosen with the following code:

key = (component.getLocalStorageKey && component.getLocalStorageKey()) 
  || component.props.localStorageKey || component.displayName || 'react-localstorage';

If you are synchronizing multiple components with the same displayName to localStorage, you must set a unique localStorageKey prop on the component.

Alternatively, you may define the method getLocalStorageKey on the component's prototype. This gives you the freedom to choose keys depending on the component's props or state.

Server Rendering

LocalStorageMixin will call setState on componentDidMount, so it will not break server rendering checksums. This is new as of 0.2.0.

Tests

We use karma as the test runner. To run the test, simply npm install all the dependencies and run:

./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start