https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/cookies/ Recent content in Cookies on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-08-20-browser-storage-libraries-localforage-js-cookie-idb-keyval-comparison/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-08-20-browser-storage-libraries-localforage-js-cookie-idb-keyval-comparison/ <p>Your user spends forty minutes building something in your web app, the browser tab crashes, and everything is gone. That is the silent failure mode of web storage: it is not a server outage, not a network issue — the data was sitting in a JavaScript variable the whole time because nobody shipped it to the right storage API. The average web developer now has <strong>three mainstream browser storage mechanisms</strong> — cookies, localStorage, and IndexedDB — plus a pile of wrapper libraries that make the choice even more confusing. And the stakes are higher than they look: cookies ride along with every HTTP request, localStorage is synchronous and capped at about 5 MB, and IndexedDB is asynchronous, powerful, and famously painful to use directly.</p>