How can I store things on the browser?
The traditional web browser is a “thin client” which interacts with a web server. The user’s virtual shopping trolley is kept on the web server, and the browser gets/sets it with HTTP requests. But today’s browsers support “fat” clients; web applications can store state on the local browser. There are lots of ways to store this state! Let’s look at some of them:
| Storage type | Appeared | Deprecated? | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP Cookies | 1994 | No | ~100% |
| LocalStorage | 2009 | No | 94% |
| SessionStorage | 2009 | No | 94% |
| IndexedDB | 2010 | No | 92% |
| CacheStorage | 2013 | No | 73% |
| WebSQL | 2009 | Yes, 2010 | 83% |
| AppCache | 2009 | Yes, 2015 | 93% |
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