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A simple wrapper of Web Storage API.
npm install pet-shop
Usage
import { PetShop } from 'pet-shop';
// plain-text store
const store = PetShop({
namespace: 'pet-shop',
storage: sessionStorage
});
store.set('abc', 'xyz');
store.get('abc'); // output: 'xyz'
store.size; // output: 1
localStorage.getItem('pet-shop.abc'); // output: 'xyz'
store.remove('abc');
store.has('abc'); // output: false
import { PetShop } from 'pet-shop';
// json store
const store = PetShop({
namespace: 'pet-shop',
storage: localStorage,
json: true
});
store.set('abc', ['xyz']);
store.get('abc'); // output: ['xyz']
store.size; // output: 1
localStorage.getItem('pet-shop.abc'); // output: ['xyz']
store.remove('abc');
store.has('abc'); // output: false
FAQs
A simple wrapper of Web Storage API
The npm package pet-shop receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, pet-shop popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pet-shop demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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