Expiry of sessionStorage

Question

I am building a form in which i have to store the data in html5\'s sessionStorage i don\'t know where the sessionStorage expires. Can anyone tell m

Answer 1

You can add some kind of expiration mechanism with something like this :

// get from session (if the value expired it is destroyed)
function sessionGet(key) {
  let stringValue = window.sessionStorage.getItem(key)
    if (stringValue !== null) {
      let value = JSON.parse(stringValue)
        let expirationDate = new Date(value.expirationDate)
        if (expirationDate > new Date()) {
          return value.value
        } else {
          window.sessionStorage.removeItem(key)
        }
    }
    return null
}

// add into session
function sessionSet(key, value, expirationInMin = 10) {
  let expirationDate = new Date(new Date().getTime() + (60000 * expirationInMin))
    let newValue = {
    value: value,
    expirationDate: expirationDate.toISOString()
  }
  window.sessionStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(newValue))
}