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Amy Preci
6,247 PointsDid anyone notice this bug, or try to optimize?
Just finished this course. I noticed what seems to be a bug. The previous Theme settings persist even if a NEW or DIFFERENT (previously authenticated) user signs in. For example if USER A has a blue accent color and USER B logs on and changes it to green, then USER A loses their settings (blue) and it is green when they next log in.
Intentional or bug? Has anyone tried to fix it so that setting changes are saved for multiple users?
Thanks!
1 Answer
Rohald van Merode
Treehouse StaffHey Amy Preci 👋
This is expected behavior with how the code in this course is setup. The setting is currently being stored locally in the browser and is not related to a specific user in any way. If you wish to adjust it to be a setting related to a user it would require an adjustment on the server side where along with the username you could setup a color property and store their preference in the database rather than a cookie.
Either of the two solutions would work and can be found in the wild, and it would depend on your use case which route you'll want to take. Is it a personal preference that has to be stored alongside the user their data? Then you'll want to store it on the server. If you want to have the theme/setting to be available globally, no matter if the user is authenticated you can store it in the browser as shown in this course 🙂
Hope this helps!