Browser client storage solutions

Cookies [[20220704043518-cookies]] The oldest method

• Only one that can send data to be read server-side
  • Thus, useful for storing session info
• Can expire
• Max 4kb

LocalStorage & SessionStorage SessionStorage only lasts for a session, but is otherwise very similar to LocalStorage.

• Name/value pairs
• Simple get/set/delete/clear
• No expiration date
• Max 5-10MB

IndexedDB The cutting edge of storage solutions

• Essentially a database
• Can store videos, images, and pretty much anything else
• More complicated API
  • Wrappers exist to ease the API
• No max limit

[[browsers]] [[web]]