What is session storage?

What is a session store?

Session store is a place where session data is being stored on server. On web its usually being identified by a cookie stored in clients browser. So it allows your app to identify user and keep him logged in for example.

What is local and session storage?

localStorage - stores data with no expiration date. window. sessionStorage - stores data for one session (data is lost when the browser tab is closed)

Is session storage safe?

The attacker could be added malicious javascript to the library to receive data from localStorage and sessionStorage and send it to the server. The browser security has implications of using localStorage are debated, we will use sessionStorage in this blog. The session storage data is considered the secure data.

Is session storage same as cookies?

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.