An article by Yogesh Chavan. Local and Session storage comes under the category of HTML5 Web Storage. In this article author uses the term Web Storage when we talk about Session and Local Storage together.
Web Storage is used for storing data on client side. So the data will be available across page refresh. Previously before Web Storage came into play, the only way of storing the data on client side was using cookies.
Both Local and Session Storage has storage limit of 5MB. All modern browsers support Web Storage. Regarding internet explorer, its supported from IE version 8 and above.
You will also get access to GitHub repo with demo application written in React just to understand the web storage concepts. Nice one!
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