Introducing the IndexedDB API
Understand the IndexedDB API and how it provides asynchronous, scalable, and transactional client-side storage. Learn why IndexedDB is crucial for offline web applications, handling large data efficiently, and enabling service worker integration for responsive, reliable experiences.
What is the IndexedDB API?
IndexedDB is a powerful, low-level API for client-side storage of large amounts of structured data. It is a NoSQL database, which means that it doesn’t use tables and rows like traditional SQL databases. Instead, it uses an object-oriented model to store and retrieve data. This makes it perfect for applications that require fast and flexible storage on the client side, such as web applications.
The IndexedDB API is a key-value database that runs in the browser. Unlike other storage mechanisms such as the sessionStorage or localStorage objects, the IndexedDB API is accessed asynchronously, which makes it suitable for service workers with ...