remove local storage

ms.html

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
     <div style="margin: 10px 0px;">
       <input id="validate_button" type="button" value="Did I win?" />
-      <input id="new_game_button" type="button" value="Create new game!" />
     </div>
   </body>
 </html>

ms.js

@@ -11,12 +11,6 @@ class Minesweeper {
   constructor(opts = {}) {
     let loadedData = {};
 
-    //check if a game is saved in localStorage
-    if (hasLocalStorage && localStorage["minesweeper.data"]) {
-      loadedData = JSON.parse(localStorage["minesweeper.data"]);
-      this.loadGame = true;
-    }
-
     Object.assign(
     this,
     {
@@ -35,12 +29,7 @@ class Minesweeper {
     { options: opts },
     loadedData);
 
-    if (this.loadGame) {
-      this.load();
-    } else {
-      this.init();
-    }
-    this.save();
+    this.init();
   }
 
   //setup the game grid
@@ -87,17 +76,6 @@ class Minesweeper {
     this.render();
   }
 
-  //populate the grid from loaded data - need to create cell objects from raw data
-  load() {
-    for (let r = 0, r_len = this.grid.length; r < r_len; r++) {
-      for (let c = 0, c_len = this.grid[r].length; c < c_len; c++) {
-        this.grid[r][c] = new Cell(this.grid[r][c]);
-      }
-    }
-
-    this.render();
-  }
-
   //construct the DOM representing the grid
   render() {
     const gameContainer = document.getElementById("game_container");
@@ -177,6 +155,7 @@ class Minesweeper {
       if (cell.isMine) {
         this.status_msg = "Sorry, you lost!";
         this.playing = false;
+        stopTimer()
         document.getElementById("game_status").textContent = this.status_msg;
         document.getElementById("game_status").style.color = "#EE0000";
       } else if (!cell.isFlagged && cell.value == 0) {
@@ -230,10 +209,10 @@ class Minesweeper {
     } else {
       this.status_msg = "Sorry, you lost!";
       this.playing = false;
+      stopTimer()
       gameStatus.textContent = this.status_msg;
       gameStatus.style.color = "#EE0000";
     }
-    this.save();
   }
 
   //debugging function to print the grid to console
@@ -248,15 +227,7 @@ class Minesweeper {
     return result;
   }
 
-  //save the game object to localstorage
-  save() {
-    if (!hasLocalStorage) {
-      return false;
-    } else {
-      let data = JSON.stringify(this);
-      localStorage["minesweeper.data"] = data;
-    }
-  }}
+  }
 
 
 //Cell constructor to represent a cell object in the grid
@@ -294,8 +265,12 @@ function newGame(opts = {}) {
   console.log(game.gridToString());
 }
 
-function startTimer() {
+function stopTimer() {
   clearInterval(countdown);
+}
+
+function startTimer() {
+  stopTimer();
   document.getElementById('timer').textContent = 70;
   countdown = setInterval(updateTimer, 1000);
 }
@@ -308,30 +283,21 @@ function updateTimer() {
         timerDisplay.textContent = currentTime - 1;
         // Call your function here every second
     } else {
-        clearInterval(countdown);
+        stopTimer();
         alert('Time run out!');
     }
 }
 
+function createNewGame() {
+  const opts = {
+  rows: 8,
+  cols: 8,
+  mines: 10 };
+
+  newGame(opts);
+}
 
 window.onload = function () {
-  //attack click to new game button
-  document.
-  getElementById("new_game_button").
-  addEventListener("click", function () {
-    const opts = {
-      rows: 8,
-      cols: 8,
-      mines: 10 };
-
-
-    if (hasLocalStorage) {
-      localStorage.clear();
-    }
-
-    newGame(opts);
-  });
-
   //attach click event to cells - left click to reveal
   document.
   getElementById("game_container").
@@ -348,7 +314,6 @@ window.onload = function () {
         game.movesMade++;
         document.getElementById("moves_made").textContent = game.movesMade;
         game.revealCell(cell);
-        game.save();
       }
     }
   });
@@ -369,7 +334,6 @@ window.onload = function () {
         game.movesMade++;
         document.getElementById("moves_made").textContent = game.movesMade;
         game.flagCell(cell);
-        game.save();
       }
     }
   });
@@ -382,18 +346,10 @@ window.onload = function () {
   });
 
   //create a game
-  newGame();
+  createNewGame();
 };
 
 //global vars
 var game;
 var countdown
 
-//check support for local storage: credit - http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html
-const hasLocalStorage = function () {
-  try {
-    return "localStorage" in window && window["localStorage"] !== null;
-  } catch (e) {
-    return false;
-  }
-}();