diff --git a/website/src/repl/components/panel/PatternsTab.jsx b/website/src/repl/components/panel/PatternsTab.jsx
index 3423c57a..44b280fb 100644
--- a/website/src/repl/components/panel/PatternsTab.jsx
+++ b/website/src/repl/components/panel/PatternsTab.jsx
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ function PatternButton({ showOutline, onClick, pattern, showHiglight }) {
 }
 
 function PatternButtons({ patterns, activePattern, onClick, started }) {
-  const viewingPatternStore = useViewingPatternData();
-  const viewingPatternData = parseJSON(viewingPatternStore);
+  const viewingPatternData = useViewingPatternData();
   const viewingPatternID = viewingPatternData.id;
   return (
     <div className="p-2">
@@ -83,8 +82,8 @@ const updateCodeWindow = (context, patternData, reset = false) => {
 export function PatternsTab({ context }) {
   const [search, setSearch] = useState('');
   const activePattern = useActivePattern();
-  const viewingPatternStore = useViewingPatternData();
-  const viewingPatternData = parseJSON(viewingPatternStore);
+  const viewingPatternData = useViewingPatternData();
+
   const { userPatterns, patternAutoStart } = useSettings();
   const viewingPatternID = viewingPatternData?.id;
 
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@ export function PatternsTab({ context }) {
         );
       }),
     );
-  }, [search, viewingPatternStore]);
+  }, [search, userPatterns]);
 
   const importRef = useRef();
   return (
diff --git a/website/src/user_pattern_utils.mjs b/website/src/user_pattern_utils.mjs
index f087c69e..8c452ee8 100644
--- a/website/src/user_pattern_utils.mjs
+++ b/website/src/user_pattern_utils.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { atom } from 'nanostores';
+import { atom, computed } from 'nanostores';
 import { useStore } from '@nanostores/react';
 import { logger } from '@strudel/core';
 import { nanoid } from 'nanoid';
@@ -36,12 +36,9 @@ export let $viewingPatternData = sessionAtom('viewingPatternData', {
   created_at: Date.now(),
 });
 
-export const getViewingPatternData = () => {
-  return parseJSON($viewingPatternData.get());
-};
-export const useViewingPatternData = () => {
-  return useStore($viewingPatternData);
-};
+const $viewingPatterns = computed($viewingPatternData, (state) => parseJSON(state));
+export const useViewingPatternData = () => useStore($viewingPatterns);
+export const getViewingPatternData = () => $viewingPatterns.get();
 
 export const setViewingPatternData = (data) => {
   $viewingPatternData.set(JSON.stringify(data));