Frontend Engineering Bushwalk

The conversation explores the use of cookies for persistent UI state, covering various options for storing UI state, the challenges of using different storage mechanisms, and the advantages and drawbacks of using cookies for UI preferences.

Takeaways
Persistent UI state can be stored using various mechanisms such as local storage, session storage, local DB, and the URL.
Using cookies for persistent UI state offers advantages such as per-device settings, last-write-wins behavior, and flexibility, but has limitations such as data size restrictions and potential performance impact.
The use of cookies for UI preferences presents trade-offs, including the challenge of managing user expectations and system preferences.

Chapters
00:00 Storing UI State
08:36 Using Cookies for Persistent UI State

The conversation explores the challenges and solutions related to layering in the browser, the difficulties in positioning layering components, and the benefits of using the Popover API for managing layering components effectively.

Takeaways
Layering in the browser
Challenges with positioning layering components
Benefits of using the Popover API