sindresorhus/electron-store

Advantages over localStorage

pannous opened this issue ยท 5 comments

pannous commented

why not just use window.localStorage?

sindresorhus commented

Many reasons:

  • localStorage only works in the browser process.
  • localStorage is not very fault tolerant, so if your app encounters an error and quits unexpectedly, you could lose the data.
  • localStorage only supports persisting strings. This module supports any JSON supported type.
  • The API of this module is much nicer. You can set and get nested properties. You can set default initial config.
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pannous commented

okay nice!!

I suggests to copy this list to the readme.md

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paranoidjk commented

IMO๏ผŒlocalStorage is not very safe, it may be leak through xss attack.

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rnmp commented

Another advantage is subscriptions!

timfish commented

It's also worth noting that localStorage and indexedDb data can be lost if a user installs an older version of your app which uses an older version of Electron.

Chromium only caters for upgrades to the underlying levelDb store. If you run a previous version of Electron, it can fail to read the levelDb store and deletes it to start again from scratch!

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