JavaScript Cookies vs Local Storage vs Session Storage

Web Dev Simplified January 12, 2019
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The ability to quickly store information on a user's browser is an incredibly under used, powerful feature of JavaScript, and this is partially because of how unwieldy it used to be. In this video I am going to discuss the differences between cookies, local storage, and session storage, and how dealing with browser storage has become much easier since the initial release of cookies. I will also talk about how to use cookies, local storage, and session storage to store information in a users browser. Cookies vs Local Storage vs Session Storage Article: https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/2020-08/cookies-localStorage-sessionStorage Twitter: https://twitter.com/DevSimplified GitHub: https://github.com/WebDevSimplified CodePen: https://codepen.io/WebDevSimplified #LocalStorage #Cookies #SessionStorage