Should you use sessionStorage?

Is it safe to use sessionStorage?

Vulnerability to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks XSS attacks inject malicious scripts into web applications, and unfortunately, both LocalStorage and SessionStorage are vulnerable to XSS attacks. XSS attacks can be used to get data from storage objects and add malicious scripts to the data stored.

Should you use localStorage or sessionStorage?

localStorage and sessionStorage are almost identical and have the same API. The difference is that with sessionStorage , the data is persisted only until the window or tab is closed. With localStorage , the data is persisted until the user manually clears the browser cache or until your web app clears the data.

Should I use cookies or sessionStorage?

For most cases, we use the localStorage object if we want some data to be on the browser. If we want it on the server, then we use cookies, and the sessionStorage is used when we want to destroy the data whenever that specific tab gets closed or the season is closed by the user.

Should you use localStorage?

To keep it short, here's the only situation in which you should use local storage: when you need to store some publicly available information that is not at all sensitive, doesn't need to be used in a high performance app, isn't larger than 5MB, and consists of purely string data.