A sample plugin that demonstrates how to save variables and access them later.

Note: This is only for Sketch Plugin developers and will be of no use to you otherwise as a standalone plugin!

Copy the pluginDefaults.js file in your plugin folder.

Import the pluginDefaults.js script using a relative path to the script file:

@import 'pluginDefaults.js'

Create a presets variable to hold default values. These values will be used the first time your plugin is run.

var presets = {
	myName: "Sketchy Jones",
	myAge: 25
}

Initialize defaults with a unique plugin domain value and the presets created above. Do this once at the beginning of your plugin script.

var userDefaults = initDefaults("com.yoursite.plugin-name", presets)

After initializing defaults, you can access default values via the userDefaults variable:

var myName = userDefaults.myName
var myAge = userDefaults.myAge

Set default values via the userDefaults variable, then commit the changes to persist values between plugin runs and app launches:

userDefaults.myName = "Carl Sagan"
userDefaults.myAge = 81

saveDefaults(userDefaults) // commit changes

You can also add new variables to save as defaults that were not included in presets:

userDefaults.myNationality = "American"
saveDefaults(userDefaults) // commit changes

If you wish to allow your users to 'Restore Original Settings', simply overwrite defaults with presets:

saveDefaults(presets)

Please check the example plugin to see all this in action.

Ping me @abynim if you find this useful or run into issues.

Enjoy!