A way to delete saved REPLs

[secretgspot]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Yes, being a noob I forked same stuff over and over trying to figure out how it works and my saved list quickly grew to same stuff that is no longer needed.

Describe the solution you'd like
Would like a delete button on each saved REPL so it doesn't pollute your server and keeps my list clean and clear.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Abandoning ship, formatting computer and starting all over.

How important is this feature to you?
Very, since I use REPL feature a lot for practice and learning and would like to keep it in orderly fashion.

Additional context
n/a

[MarcRam]

Being a noob myself, this are just my random thoughts and may not be accurate.

Have you considered that this requested feature would not be desirable in the context of a shared environment such as Svelte.dev where the examples on the REPL need to be accessible for others to view, and accidental erasure could lead to losing examples required for issue reports?

I don't yet know the structure of the REPL but, Would it be possible for you to simply delete the generated sub-directories on the command line to clean up on your forked version?

[secretgspot]

I can share codepens and delete it at will, I can share jsfiddle and delete it at will. jsfiddle and codepen allow you to create anon repls which you can share and cannot be deleted.

[MarcRam]

Very True, I suppose its just a matter of building the desired feature tied to a user ID and a no-delete flag.

What I should have said is that with limited development resources, I guess it will depend on how many people see your feature request as being valuable enough before it will get attention.

[pngwn]

'Delete' could just remove them from your list but leave the repl untouched? Sounds like the problem is noise in your repl list rather than actually needing a repl deleted specifically.

[ghost]

Another reason to be able to delete saved REPLs:

I don't know if it's a bug with the REPL, GitHub authentication, Firefox, or some combination of the three, but when I work on a single REPL, login, then save it a single time, I get the following in my saved apps list. Note: I named the app "Recursive" because I was testing out <svelte:self>, not because I expected this result. It is pretty ironic though...

[nickolasgregory]

Sorting alphabetically would be nice too.

[mattwolff]

I agree, the option to delete (or at least remove them from my own list) would be fantastic. I've accidentally hit save on the Hello World REPL an embarrassing number of times...

That being said, maybe the Delete action should have some type of prompt in place: a kind of "ARE YOU SURE?" message to avoid accidental deletions as well.

[blazzjosh]

yep...we definitely need this feature....

Especially when we have duplicate Repls ...also named same ...🤷🏼‍♂️

[opensas]

I think that with a fine warning message (ARE YOU SURE?) would be enough. If the owner of the repl decide to break existing references that's fine, as long as he is not doing it by accident. Moreover, the owner can alway edit the repl and leave it empty, so it's the same.
Another nice thing would be to add an Archive option, to take it out of your list but leave it there for references.

[mlsks]

...Or when the App.svelte is left empty, it should be removed.

[markfirmware]

...Or when the App.svelte is left empty, it should be removed.

What I do is rename the title to empty.

[benwoodward]

If I have a repl with private data in it, I want to be able to remove it from your server. This should be reason enough to allow people to delete their repls. If I add data, I should be able to remove it.

[opensas]

If I understand correctly you can always edit your REPLS and replace them with blank content, but the problem is that there will be an empty repl left there forever...

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[lukaszpolowczyk]

If deleting a saved REPL is a problem, maybe the function... hide in the list https://svelte.dev/apps?

Because it's really about getting this list right.

It can work like this:

• you click "hide" button
• a saved REPL turns gray and moves to the bottom of the list - regardless of the date when the saved REPL was updated

The code is still there, the REPL link is still working, Google is still indexing it.

And that's all. Is this a good compromise?

[MinecraftPublisher]

Please svelte team, We need this! And the autosave, Why don't you make a better REPL interface?

[bluwy]

I tried to tackle this a few weeks ago. It wasn't hard to support deleting repls from the database. The main issue was that there isn't a clear consensus how should we fix this.

From the discussion, we know that:

1. Don't do deletes in the database, just hide it visually (comment)
2. ??

Unresolved questions:

1. How should we communicate that something will be hidden? confirm()? Custom UI?
2. How do we let users unhide hidden repls? Do we need to?
3. How to display hidden repls, in a custom section (needs design)? or just dim the repl?

Before one actually sends a PR for this, we need these questions resolved. Otherwise, we'll only get them answered when the PR is reviewed (and probably cause wasted work).

[opensas]

Just to give my two cents to the discussion, and specially because I think svelte repl is an esential tool to showcase svelte, teach how it works, report issues, and brag about it with the rest of the frameworks:

1. Don't do deletes in the databse, just hide it visually
   if it's not really a problem to have all those dead repl hanging around, I'm ok with that
2. I guess the option two would be to just delete them, and leave everything as if it never existed

Unresolved questions:

Taking the first option, I would mark the "visually deleted" items as archived

3. How to display hidden repls, in a custom section (needs design)? or just dim the repl?

After you log in and go to your saved apps you will only see the active repls (those which are not archived) and a link with the see archived repls next to Your apps title

Once you click see archived repls the link should turn into see active repls, and only the archived repls should be listed

Another option would be to make a show archived repls checkbox, initially unchecked, and only when you check it archived repls would appear right next to the rest of the repls.

2. How do we let users unhide hidden repls? Do we need to?

When you are browsing active repls, an archive link should appear next to each repl, and when you are browsing archived links there should be an unarchive link next to each repl.

Optionally each repl could also have a delete link, that would effectively delete it, in case we want to have both options (logical and physical delete, to name it somehow)

1. How should we communicate that something will be hidden?

Not sure about this one, I can imagine the following options

1. do nothing, just make the repl disappear from the repl list, it will appear in the list of archived repls
2. confirmation box Are you sure you want to archive this repl
3. Floating undo repl archive link for a couple of seconds

I think the most comfortable one for the user would be the third option, although I guess it would be a bit harder to implement

[silverdr]

FWIW - my $0.02 would be: keep it really simple at least at first:

• have a "Delete" button on the list
• present a big warning upon clicking
• done (including removing from DB)

At some point later we can think of more sophisticated stuff like archive/unarchive for example - if really needed.

[bluwy]

Note: We're currently migrating the site to https://github.com/sveltejs/sites through #78, which will be using a new backend at https://github.com/sveltejs/api.svelte.dev. If anyone wants to tackle this, I'd hold off until the PR is merged.

[pngwn]

FWIW - my $0.02 would be: keep it really simple at least at first:

• have a "Delete" button on the list
• present a big warning upon clicking
• done (including removing from DB)

At some point later we can think of more sophisticated stuff like archive/unarchive for example - if really needed.

This is simple but destructive, there is no walking that option back. I'd opt for just hiding it for now.

To do this we need to store some hidden/ viewable metadata along with the gist.

[rchrdnsh]

My main use case is that seeing all my old REPL's is a bunch of noise when I'm trying to find a specific one, so having the ability to hide/show them would be great, and maybe in the future being able to tag REPL's would be even better. And being able to create lists/groups/categories of REPL's would be even more better...er :-)

I wouldn't necessarily take completely deleting REPL's off the table, but make it tough to do so, which would require a explicit and extensive action by the author to delete the REPL.

[opensas]

Yes, perhaps it's better to go directly for the tagging option and handle deleted ones with an archived tag.
The metadata to add could be a comma separated list of tags, and the ui could have an option to delete/undetele repls that would just add and remove the archived tag.

[Rich-Harris]

It's now possible to delete stuff via https://svelte.dev/apps