Is localstorage the right choice for this webapp?

Question

I\'m interested in building a small offline webapp and I\'m looking for some advice. Here\'s the basics of what I want it to do

• Create reports that, initially,

Answer 1

localstorage will work just fine for this, but don't think of it as a robust solution.. It's just a basic key/value store and won't be very performant with thousands of complex things going on.

Check out the excellent Dive into HTML5 guide on localstorage: http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html

Answer 2

Link to the localstorage apis

Yes localstorage would be perfect for you application. It would allow your application to have no need to connect to a server at all. Keep in mind that local storage does have maximums on the amount of data that can be stored.

EDIT: Using JSON.stringify() on can convert complex javascript objects to json which can be storage and retrieved with ease inside of local storage.