What is `.Page.Store`?

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Currently stumbled on this thread solution by @jmooring and realized I had never seen this page variable: .Store. Is it a Scratch alias or a shortcode-only storing scratch-like feature I completely missed?

The only mention I found is in the Diagram doc.

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That’s true.

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There’s an open docs issue:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/issues/1668

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Oh yes and I can see I engaged in the issue behind its implementation. I think I never got the subtlety of it. By what I can grasp, it’s only relevant in server mode.

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I still don’t really understand this. I have a helper partial that just increments a number so I can have unique IDs throughout my page. Should it be using .Scratch or .Store? Does it matter?

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I would use .Store for that. For regular hugo it doesn’t matter. .Store was added to primarily solve the use case of

  • A shortcode is using the .Page.Scratch to pass up some value to the calling template.
  • It works fine on first render.
  • Then, on change, we reset all the Scratch pads, but the shortcode is not re-evaluated, so templates depending on the value from the Shortcode now misbehaves.
  • .Store will never be reset, so it survives rebuilds.
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