Northeastern-Electric-Racing / Northeastern-Electric-Racing/FinishLine

Forms - Add warning modal when refreshing the page

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front-end spike
Dominant language
TypeScript
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36
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9
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Spike Type

Technical

Goal

We would like to prompt this browser modal to open when a form is refreshed:
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Look into how we could implement this in FinishLIne

Reason for Spike

Currently, when a user refreshes while on a form, they lose changes without warning

Additional notes

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the form components and any existing page-refresh or navigation handling, then reproduce the data-loss behavior in the browser. Done means documenting a viable warning-modal approach and the scope of changes needed in FinishLine.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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