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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By : MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By: MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

The indexedDB - storing large data


The indexedDB is a relatively new and low-level API compared to the other storage mediums we've already discussed. It is used to store large amounts of data compared to local storage. However, the drawback of this is that it is difficult to be used and set up.

What you can do with local storage in a few lines may take a lot of lines and callbacks in indexedDB. Therefore, be careful when using it. If you're using it in your application, we recommend that you use popular wrappers instead of directly writing the endpoints, as that will make things easier.

TheindexedDB is so vast that it would be fair to say it deserves a whole chapter on its own. We can't cover each and every aspect in this chapter, but we'll try to convey the key information required.

Opening an indexedDB database

The indexedDB object is available on the window object. You will need to actually open a database in order to store data in indexedDB, shown as follows:

const open = window.indexedDB...