IndexedDB
🗓️ December 01, 2022 🏷️ Browser
This technology has been around for a while (> 3 years) and I haven’t used it personally, but it’s pretty damn slick. IndexedDB is a low-level API for client side storage. Its more popular brother, localStorage has its limitations and if you’re
ever running into them, you might want to take a look at IndexedDB. In a nutshell, IndexedDB is a transactional database system that allows us to permanently store data inside a user’s browser. It would be useful for applications that store a large amount of data and
applications that don’t need persistent internet connectivity to function.
Keep these key things in mind:
- It stores key-value pairs.
- It’s built on a transactional database model.
- The API is mostly async.
- It’s object-oriented 😲.
- It’s not SQL
- It adheres to the same origin policy.