Save button, disable auto-save

[NV]

This is frequently asked, but I don’t think I’m going to implement it any time soon since I believe undoing changes in Resources panel is a superior workflow.

[franciscolourenco]

Or using Undo.

[weshardee]

My 2 cents: it might be useful to have a simple on/off toggle button in the toolbar, similar to what Live Reload does.

[franciscolourenco]

That would be useful. Doesn't a message pop up if the server isn't running?

[NV]

How often do you need to turn Autosave off and why?

[weshardee]

Occasionally I like to just go crazy and experiment, particularly if I'm trying to figure out a new or more efficient way to handle something complex, and I don't necessarily want to lose my current state. There are of course other options, say making a commit or restoring a previous version within Chrome, so obviously it's not strictly necessary. Still, I think it would be handy to just be able to toggle off autosave for a few minutes from the browser bar.

[NV]

I don’t like my Chrome toolbar being bloated. I’m not going to add a toolbar icon that the only purpose is to toggle the extension on/off. You can do the same in chrome://extensions.

I also go crazy all the time, but sometimes it turns out great and I do want to save the changes. So turning off Autosave is not a solution.

Chrome DevTools allows you to undo changes until you reload the page. That’s the actual problem. Occasionally I want to revert changes that I’ve made before reloading the page. I can easily keep changes in memory of Autosave server, but I haven’t yet figured out a good UI to undo/redo them.

[weshardee]

The way the new options page handles attaching routes to the servers solves this to my satisfaction. I can just "unplug" a route to disable it. Awesome update, btw. Much easier than editing a local file.

[NV]

I’m glad you like it but isn’t it easier to open chrome://extensions/ and disable DevTools Autosave rather than opening chrome://extensions/, clicking Options, and unplugging a pipe?

[weshardee]

I have a bookmark directly to the options page.

[ryangrush]

I agree, an on/off button would greatly improve the usability.

[bronzle]

couldn't there be a page_action that shows up if the project matches a rule, that enable/disables autosave ? that seems like a fairly nice compromise.