When should I use web storage?

What is web storage used for?

With web storage, web applications can store data locally within the user's browser. Before HTML5, application data had to be stored in cookies, included in every server request. Web storage is more secure, and large amounts of data can be stored locally, without affecting website performance.

When should I use browser session storage?

Session storage is a popular choice when it comes to storing data on a browser. It enables developers to save and retrieve different values. Unlike local storage, session storage only keeps data for a particular session. The data is cleared once the user closes the browser window.

What does web storage allow a developer to do?

Web Storage is a client-side feature that allows web apps to store data or state on the client/browser without involving the server.

When should you 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.