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
andsessionStorage
objects - An introduction to
indexedDB
- How to use
indexedDB
to perform basic adding, deleting, and reading operations