reading-notes

Class 13: Reading Notes & Assignment Summary

Assignments

Local Storage and How To Use It On Websites

• Why would a developer use local storage for a web application?
  • Local storage allows you to access information from your previous sessions
  • Local storage prevents you from being banned from services
  • If an API call fails, you will still have data to display
• What information should not be stored in local storage?
  • Private information
  • Passwords
  • Locations
  • Search history
• Local storage can store what type of data? How would you convert it to that type before storing?
  • Local storage stores everything as strings
  • Workaround to store data properly:
    • JSON.stringify()
    • JSON.parse