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The JavaScript Workshop

You're reading from   The JavaScript Workshop Learn to develop interactive web applications with clean and maintainable JavaScript code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641917
Length 802 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jahred Love Jahred Love
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Alonzo L. Hosford Alonzo L. Hosford
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Florian Sloot Florian Sloot
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Daniel Rosenbaum Daniel Rosenbaum
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Philip Kirkbride Philip Kirkbride
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Nick Turner Nick Turner
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Gaurav Mehla Gaurav Mehla
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Preface 1. Getting to Know JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with JavaScript 3. Programming Fundamentals 4. JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks 5. Beyond the Fundamentals 6. Understanding Core Concepts 7. Popping the Hood 8. Browser APIs 9. Working with Node.js 10. Accessing External Resources 11. Creating Clean and Maintainable Code 12. Using NextGeneration JavaScript 13. JavaScript Programming Paradigms 14. Understanding Functional Programming 15. Asynchronous Tasks Appendix

IndexedDB

IndexedDB is another form of client-side data storage that differs from web storage in some important ways:

  • Unlike web storage, it is well suited to storing large amounts of data, and for storing many different data types.
  • The API has much greater functionality than the web storage API, allowing us to do things such as perform queries against indexed data.
  • It's an asynchronous API, so working with data stored in IndexedDB won't block the execution of other code.

These last two points hint at the biggest drawback with using IndexedDB over web storage: its API and workflow are more complex than the simple get and set methods we use for web storage. IndexedDB is often criticized for having an overly complex API, but it's necessary to ensure data integrity (more on that soon), and anyway, if we take the time to understand some core concepts, then we'll see that it's actually not that complex after all.

Like web storage, IndexedDB...

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