Web Storage
Recording information about previous activity is usually done with cookies, but one of their drawbacks is that you can store only small amounts of data. The Web Storage API was created to allow user agents to store more data on the user’s device. This data can be stored only until the browser is closed, which is known as session storage, or kept until the user or another script actively flushes the data, which is called local storage. Both operate in essentially the same way, except for that one key difference—permanence.
To store data, you save it in key:value pairs, similar to how you store cookies now, except the quantity of data that can be saved is greater. The API has two key objects, which are straightforward and memorable: ...
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