reading-notes

Reading Notes Class 13

Why is this important?

• Local storage is important in order to make sure a user’s progress is saved on an application without forcing them to start a signup process.

Local Storage and How To Use It On Websites

1. A dev. would use local storage for a web app. because the state of the application won’t be reset everytime the user closes down and restarts. Instead it will maintain it’s last ‘spot’.

2. Any personal sensitive information?

3. Local storage can store strings. You can use JSON.stringify() methods to convert the data type to a string. JSON.parse() To convert it back to object.

Things I want to know more about

• Couldn’t find the answer to number 2

In Class Lecture

• localStorage has 2 methods
  • setItem(“key”, value);
  • getItem(“key”)
  • value can only be a string
• JSON, JavaScript Object Notation