Storage APIs in JavaScript

Imagine you're on Facebook and have logged in to your account. You see your news feed; everything looks normal. Next, you click on a post, and you're made to log in again. That's strange. You continue and log in one more time, and the post opens. You click on a link in a comment, and you're made to log in yet again. What is happening?

That's what would happen if we lived in a world without storage APIs on the frontend.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at the following topics:

  • How the internet works because of cookies
  • Different forms of data storage areas available in JavaScript
  • Methods associated with localStorage and sessionStorage objects
  • An introduction to indexedDB
  • How to use indexedDB to perform basic adding, ...

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