June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
873 pages
18h 9m
English
IndexedDB is a more robust client-side storage mechanism than local storage in a browser. Likewise, it provides offline capabilities and is based on saving and retrieving data as key-value pairs, but it lets you store significantly bigger amounts of data and allows for high performance searching using database keys. IndexedDB is supported in modern browsers, but is only partially supported in Internet Explorer above Version 10 (refer to http://caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb) for details.
You can find the code for this recipe in the using_indexeddb project. We use the same method from the Posting JSON-formatted data recipe in Chapter 7, Working with Web Servers, but now we only store the data locally ...
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