Preserving state across sidebar pages

[Dimitri_S]

Figured I would point people that find this thread to this other post I made answering how to preserve state across sidebar page navigation. Ignore the rant at the start, LOL.

Mini-tutorial: Initializing widget values and getting them to stick without double presses

I recommend people try Streamlit all the time but I have to say that session state is one of the most frustrating thing about using it. The Streamlit learning curve is fairly low until you get to any kind of state management. At a minimum I feel like the docs need a lot more examples. That being said, for anyone searching for something like how do I persist text in st.text_input or ss.text_area or how do I persist input values across page navigation here is an example using #3 example of @asehm…