Local Storage

Notes from The Past, Present & Future of Local Storage for Web Applications

HTML5 Storage

• Known as Web Storage, Local Storage, or Dom Storage
• A way for web pages to store named key/value pairs locally, within the client web browsers
• Like cookies, this data persists even after you navigate away from the site, close tabs or exit the browser
• Unlike cookies, this data is never transmitted to the remote web server
• Data can be any type supported by JavaScript, including strings, booleans, integers or floats
• Data is stored as a string