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Why cache namespaces?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by tracing the browser localStorage path that loads enabled namespaces, then compare it with the debug.store behavior and the VITE_DEBUG_ENABLE initialization shown in the issue. The issue names no files or tests; completion depends on deciding the intended cache behavior and confirming it across page loads.

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Description

I do not understand why localstorage is used to cache the enabled namespaces. It seems to just cause confusion with unexpected behavior. #901 #536 #871 #534 #337

I had to spend some time to figure out why

if (process.env.VITE_DEBUG_ENABLE)
    debug.enable(process.env.VITE_DEBUG_ENABLE);

didn't work when I removed the env var. I expected each page load to be an isolated environment until I managed to step through the code and see its caching. I tried to disable storage with debug.store = null but that didn't prevent the initial load.

debug.enable(process.env.VITE_DEBUG_ENABLE ?? '');

is where I landed, which admittedly isn't complicated, but its weird that I had to deal with this problem.

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