 if nothing has been previously saved. We also set the <a href="/api/the-essentials/persisting-stores/persister/"><code>Persister</code></a> object to auto-save, creating a continuous synchronization between the in-memory version of the <a href="/api/the-essentials/creating-stores/store/"><code>Store</code></a> object and the copy of it in the browser&#x27;s local storage.</p><p>Note that we don&#x27;t set the initial data of the <a href="/api/the-essentials/creating-stores/store/"><code>Store</code></a> ob