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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.