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React hook that persists data in localStorage
https://github.com/astoilkov/use-local-storage-state

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React hook that persists data in localStorage

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# `use-local-storage-state`

> React hook that persist data in `localStorage`

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## Install

React 18 and above:
```bash
npm install use-local-storage-state
```

⚠️ React 17 and below. For docs, go to the [react-17 branch](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-local-storage-state/tree/react-17).
```bash
npm install use-local-storage-state@17
```

## Why

- Actively maintained for the past 4 years — see [contributors](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-local-storage-state/graphs/contributors) page.
- Production ready.
- 689 B (brotlied).
- SSR support.
- Works with React 18 concurrent rendering and React 19.
- Handles the `Window` [`storage`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/storage_event) event and updates changes across browser tabs, windows, and iframe's. Disable with `storageSync: false`.
- In-memory fallback when `localStorage` throws an error and can't store the data. Provides a `isPersistent` API to let you notify the user their data isn't currently being stored.
- Aiming for high-quality with [my open-source principles](https://astoilkov.com/my-open-source-principles).

## Usage

```typescript
import useLocalStorageState from 'use-local-storage-state'

export default function Todos() {
const [todos, setTodos] = useLocalStorageState('todos', {
defaultValue: ['buy avocado', 'do 50 push-ups']
})
}
```

Todo list example

```tsx
import React, { useState } from 'react'
import useLocalStorageState from 'use-local-storage-state'

export default function Todos() {
const [todos, setTodos] = useLocalStorageState('todos', {
defaultValue: ['buy avocado']
})
const [query, setQuery] = useState('')

function onClick() {
setQuery('')
setTodos([...todos, query])
}

return (
<>
setQuery(e.target.value)} />
Create
{todos.map(todo => (

{todo}

))}
>
)
}

```

Notify the user when localStorage isn't saving the data using the isPersistent property

There are a few cases when `localStorage` [isn't available](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-local-storage-state/blob/7db8872397eae8b9d2421f068283286847f326ac/index.ts#L3-L11). The `isPersistent` property tells you if the data is persisted in `localStorage` or in-memory. Useful when you want to notify the user that their data won't be persisted.

```tsx
import React, { useState } from 'react'
import useLocalStorageState from 'use-local-storage-state'

export default function Todos() {
const [todos, setTodos, { isPersistent }] = useLocalStorageState('todos', {
defaultValue: ['buy avocado']
})

return (
<>
{todos.map(todo => (

{todo}
))}
{!isPersistent && Changes aren't currently persisted.}
>
)
}

```

Removing the data from localStorage and resetting to the default

The `removeItem()` method will reset the value to its default and will remove the key from the `localStorage`. It returns to the same state as when the hook was initially created.

```tsx
import useLocalStorageState from 'use-local-storage-state'

export default function Todos() {
const [todos, setTodos, { removeItem }] = useLocalStorageState('todos', {
defaultValue: ['buy avocado']
})

function onClick() {
removeItem()
}
}
```

Why my component renders twice?

If you are hydrating your component (for example, if you are using Next.js), your component might re-render twice. This is behavior specific to React and not to this library. It's caused by the `useSyncExternalStore()` hook. There is no workaround. This has been discussed in the issues: https://github.com/astoilkov/use-local-storage-state/issues/56.

If you want to know if you are currently rendering the server value you can use this helper function:
```ts
function useIsServerRender() {
return useSyncExternalStore(() => {
return () => {}
}, () => false, () => true)
}
```

## API

#### `useLocalStorageState(key: string, options?: LocalStorageOptions)`

Returns `[value, setValue, { removeItem, isPersistent }]` when called. The first two values are the same as `useState()`. The third value contains two extra properties:
- `removeItem()` — calls `localStorage.removeItem(key)` and resets the hook to it's default state
- `isPersistent` — `boolean` property that returns `false` if `localStorage` is throwing an error and the data is stored only in-memory

#### `key`

Type: `string`

The key used when calling `localStorage.setItem(key)` and `localStorage.getItem(key)`.

⚠️ Be careful with name conflicts as it is possible to access a property which is already in `localStorage` that was created from another place in the codebase or in an old version of the application.

#### `options.defaultValue`

Type: `any`

Default: `undefined`

The default value. You can think of it as the same as `useState(defaultValue)`.

#### `options.defaultServerValue`

Type: `any`

Default: `undefined`

The default value while server-rendering and hydrating. If not set, it will use `defaultValue` option instead. Set only if you want it to be different than the client value.

#### `options.storageSync`

Type: `boolean`

Default: `true`

Setting to `false` doesn't subscribe to the [Window storage event](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/storage_event). If you set to `false`, updates won't be synchronized across tabs, windows and iframes.

#### `options.serializer`

Type: `{ stringify, parse }`

Default: `JSON`

JSON does not serialize `Date`, `Regex`, or `BigInt` data. You can pass in [superjson](https://github.com/blitz-js/superjson) or other `JSON`-compatible serialization library for more advanced serialization.

## Related

- [`use-storage-state`](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-storage-state) — Supports `localStorage`, `sessionStorage`, and any other [`Storage`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage) compatible API.
- [`use-session-storage-state`](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-session-storage-state) — A clone of this library but for `sessionStorage`.
- [`use-db`](https://github.com/astoilkov/use-db) — Similar to this hook but for `IndexedDB`.
- [`local-db-storage`](https://github.com/astoilkov/local-db-storage) — Tiny wrapper around `IndexedDB` that mimics `localStorage` API.