4 engineers on Hacker News describe using LocalStorage first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“LocalStorage loves to lose writes if you're writing from multiple tabs.”
regret · production · jitl · 2024-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Both of these used localStorage years ago, but we ported to IndexedDB because of data loss on localStorage.”
regret · production · jitl · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You can't trust localStorage anyways - it will silently drop some writes in Chrome and Firefox.”
regret · production · jitl · 2021-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using this goal-attainment approach to do analytics at my company for quite some years.”
neutral · production · __ka · 2019-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?