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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 2. Working with JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 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

Web Storage API

Storing data in the browser can be a great way of improving the user's experience. It can save the user having to wait while the same data is fetched from the server, and it can be used to instantly bring a previously visited page back to the state it was left in, meaning, for example, that the user doesn't have to refill in the same parts of a form. The Web Storage API is used to store data in the browser in the form of key/value pairs. It can be used to store data that a user has entered into a form to allow them to easily come back to it and complete it later, or it could be preferences a user has chosen in the web app, data that you want to pass from one page to another within the same origin, or any other piece of data that you think would be useful to store. The Web Storage API is synchronous, so setting and retrieving data will block other JavaScript code until the web storage methods have completed. Web storage is intended for storing relatively small...

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