What is the difference between localStorage, sessionStorage, session and cookies?

This is an extremely broad scope question, and a lot of the pros/cons will be contextual to the situation. In all cases, these storage mechanisms will be specific to an individual browser on an individual computer/device. Any requirement to store data on an ongoing basis across sessions will need to involve your application server side … Read more

HTML5 Local storage vs. Session storage

localStorage and sessionStorage both extend Storage. There is no difference between them except for the intended “non-persistence” of sessionStorage. That is, the data stored in localStorage persists until explicitly deleted. Changes made are saved and available for all current and future visits to the site. For sessionStorage, changes are only available per tab. Changes made are saved and available for the current page in that tab until … Read more