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Habit Recipes

This website uses some of the Atomic Habits techniques such as habit stacking to help you develop healthy habits

Instructions

1. Add the habits that you want to develop
2. Set the website as your homepage

Algorithm

It does 3 main things

• Habit stack "When I _"
• Habit stack "At _"
• Keeps track of how many times you perform the habit

1. Select type of Habit
2. Enter habit
3. Create appropriate habit object
4. Update storage with habits
5. View page listing
6. Keep a counter per habit
7. Set as homepage (optional)

Technical Details

We can use and serialize objects for this. Because we only have a couple different types of habits, intent/stack, we can have two different objects in localstorage. One for each. It'll look like {:intention [Intention Array]} {:stack [Stack Array]}

And then when we deserialize, the Arrays will return arrays of objects. These objects are then rendered as habits.

Because reading and writing to localstorage is fast, we're using it as our global state. Functions that need to edit stored habits

1. Read habits from localstorage
2. Edit the resulting array
3. Store to localstorage
4. Call render() which will read from localstorage again and rerender

Our rendering function, habitsToElements makes me appreaciate JSX. We have to do a document.createElement -> element.appendChild pattern, but at least it's vanilla js.

Theming

Theming is done by first storing the selected theme to localstorage. Then, from the render function, we read the stored theme and set a corresponding classname