Add auto-save to localStorage for Playground editor#16782
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Save editor content to localStorage on every change so users don't lose their work when closing the tab. On page load, restore saved content if available, falling back to the Hello World template. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR adds auto-save functionality to the Playground editor, automatically persisting editor content to localStorage on every document change and restoring it on page load. This prevents users from losing their work when closing or refreshing the browser tab.
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- Auto-save editor content to localStorage on every document change
- Restore saved content from localStorage on initialization, with fallback to default Hello World template
- Clear sample dropdown when restoring saved content to avoid misleading selection state
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Add definition for the Playground - the interactive web-based editor powered by the gh-aw WebAssembly compiler, including the auto-save localStorage feature added in PR #16782. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
localStorageon every document change so users don't lose work when closing/refreshing the tablocalStorage, falling back to the default Hello World templatelocalStorage.setItemin try/catch for resilience when storage is full or unavailableThis is a ~10-line change to
docs/public/editor/editor.js.Test plan
localStorage.removeItem('gh-aw-playground-content')in devtools, reload -- should fall back to Hello Worldgh-aw-playground-theme) is unaffected🤖 Generated with Claude Code