Hi Friends,
In this post we are going to talk about when to use Local storage and Cookies.
To begin with, this is an extremely broad scope question, and a lot of pros/cons will be contextual to the situation.
Please find the below differences.
In this post we are going to talk about when to use Local storage and Cookies.
To begin with, this is an extremely broad scope question, and a lot of pros/cons will be contextual to the situation.
Please find the below differences.
Local Storage
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Cookies
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Good to store large amount of data, up to 4MB
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Good for small amount of data.
Cookies give you a limit of 4096 bytes (4095, actually)
per cookie
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Local Storage allow you to store JavaScript primitives but
not Objects or Arrays (it is possible to JSON serialize them to store them
using the APIs)
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Cookies only allow you to store strings
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Local storage data is not sent to the server on every
request (HTTP header) as it is purely at the client side
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All data is transferred to and from server, so bandwidth
is consumed on every request
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It stores data with no expiration date, and gets cleared
only through JavaScript, or clearing the Browser Cache / Locally Stored Data
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Can specify timeout period so that cookies data
are removed from browser
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Local storage stores the data in the form of key and value
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Not supported by anything before: IE 8, Firefox 3.5,
Safari 4, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, iOS 2.0, Android 2.0
local storage can only be read client-side
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Hope this helps...
