Articles Tagged localStorage

localStorage is...

• Good! It's an incredibly easy API to use.

localStorage.setItem('name', 'Chris'); let name = localStorage.getItem('name');

• Bad! Philip Walton explains why:

localStorage is a synchronous API that blocks the main thread, and any time you access it you potentially prevent your page from being interactive.

Chrome has an idea (here's the proposal) for reinventing it. … Read article

Ire Aderinokun:

There are currently four active methods for storing data on the client side.

1. Cookies (old school, still useful because they are sent with server requests)
2. Local Storage (very easy to use)
3. Session Storage (exactly the same, only clears when the tab is closed)
4. IndexedDB (quite complex, quite powerful)