2 years ago

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/local-or-session-storage/ https://sebastiandedeyne.com/tags/javascript/https://sebastiandedeyne.com/local-or-session-storage/Local storage tends to be the obvious place to persist data locally in a web application. We tend to grab straight for localStorage, but it’s not the only tool in our workbox.

localStorage and sessionStorage are part of the https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API have the same key/value mechanism.

When dealing with storage, try/catch is advices to avoid storage limits and other caveats.

There are more ways to store data locally like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/state, or https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API.