JavaScript Cookies vs Local Storage vs Session Storage

The ability to quickly store information on a user's browser is an incredibly under used, powerful feature of JavaScript, and this is partially because of how unwieldy it used to be. In this video I am going to discuss the differences between cookies, local storage, and session storage, and how dealing with browser storage has become much easier since the initial release of cookies. I will also talk about how to use cookies, local storage, and session storage to store information in a users browser.
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0:00 Overview 4:56 LocalStorage 8:10 SessionStorage 9:43 Cookies

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