Autosave forms

[iainbeeston]

I'd really like an option to auto-save resources on the edit page in avo. I'd love to hear any advice on whether there is a workaround for this in avo (custom stimulus controllers?). If there is no obvious workaround, I'd be happy to contribute a PR to do it (but I'd also appreciate any suggestions on how the code should work)

[adrianthedev]

TBH this could be done with a custom Stimulus controller. I don't think you'd need to PR it even; only if you want to share.

• Add a custom js file to the head from your asset pipeline. Docs
• add a custom Stimulus controller. Docs

The controller flow would be like so:

• when the page loads start a timer
• When the timer executes it should:
• Disable all fields (you can target them through Stimulus targets). Docs
• submit the form
• If there are validation errors, they should be displayed
• If there aren't any errors, it will display a "success" message.

There might be a few more things that come to mind:

• you have to take account for like prevent submitting when a user inputs data.
• Maybe a countdown somehow (you can create a custom field).
• Maybe a "disable auto-save" countdown

Let me know your thoughts. I'd loce to help you make this a reality. Maybe we'll push it in the package too.
I'm open to making changes to Avo to accomodate this feature if needed.