Methods, systems, and computer program products are included to persist a state of an application to a memory and to restore the state of the application from the memory. The method includes leveraging two-way binding between a model and a view of the application in order to persist at least a portion of the model to the memory as a state. The persisting of the model to the memory may be performed automatically. This state may later be restored and applied to the model. Updates to the model based on the state restoration are propagated to the view, thereby restoring at least a portion of the view to its appearance at the time the model was persisted to the memory.