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DART Cookbook

DART Cookbook

By : Ivo Balbaert
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DART Cookbook

DART Cookbook

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By: Ivo Balbaert

Overview of this book

If you are a Dart developer looking to sharpen your skills, and get insight and tips on how to put that knowledge into practice, then this book is for you. You should also have a basic knowledge of HTML, and how web applications with browser clients and servers work, in order to build dynamic Dart applications.
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Using a browser's local storage


Local storage (also called the Web Storage API) is widely supported in modern browsers. It enables the application's data to be persisted locally (on the client side) as a map-like structure: a dictionary of key-value string pairs, in fact using JSON strings to store and retrieve data. It provides our application with an offline mode of functioning when the server is not available to store the data in a database. Local storage does not expire, but every application can only access its own data up to a certain limit depending on the browser. In addition, of course, different browsers can't access each other's stores.

How to do it...

Look at the following example, the local_storage.dart file:

import 'dart:html';

Storage local = window.localStorage;

void main() {
  var job1 = new Job(1, "Web Developer", 6500, "Dart Unlimited") ;

Perform the following steps to use the browser's local storage:

  1. Write to a local storage with the key Job:1 using the following code:

    ...

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