Today's post is one of those that started off with me worrying that it was going to be too simple and quickly turned into a bit of a complex little beast. I love that as it usually means my expectations were wrong and I've got a chance to expand my knowledge a bit. This post came from a simple idea: While working on a form, can we save your form data for restoring later in case you navigate away, close the tab by accident, or perhaps get "surprised" by an operating system update. While this is not something you would want to use in every situation (for example, storing a new password field), there are plenty of examples where this could be helpful, especially in a larger form.
For our demo, I will only cover client-side storage, which means the data will be unique to one browser on the device. Although what I described here could be tied to a back-end service for storing temporary form data as well.