Is there any difference between: window.localStorage and localStorage?

Question

I have been doing the following:

var store = window.localStorage;
store.setItem()

but now I see code doing this:

localStora         


        

Answer 1

Unless you've declared a variable named localStorage in a custom defined scope, they're the same. localStorage refers to window.localStorage. In fact every variable in global namespace can be accessed as window.

For example: