What is a local storage type?

What does local storage mean?

Local-storage definition A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) directly attached to the device being referenced. The term would be used to contrast the storage in that unit from the storage on servers in the local network or on the Internet (see SAN, NAS and cloud storage). 3.

Should I use local storage?

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.

What do you use local storage for?

Local storage allows developers to store and retrieve data in the browser. The data stored in local storage will not expire. This means the data will persist even if the tab or the browser window is closed.