diff --git a/docs/walkthroughs/06-saving-to-a-database.md b/docs/walkthroughs/06-saving-to-a-database.md
index 03a255c5e..cd3b64e3e 100644
--- a/docs/walkthroughs/06-saving-to-a-database.md
+++ b/docs/walkthroughs/06-saving-to-a-database.md
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ const App = () => {
   const editor = useMemo(() => withReact(createEditor()), [])
   // Update the initial content to be pulled from Local Storage if it exists.
   const initialValue = useMemo(
-    JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('content')) || [
+    () => JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('content')) || [
       {
         type: 'paragraph',
         children: [{ text: 'A line of text in a paragraph.' }],