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Single Page Apps – Store Your Data Locally in Knockout Using AmplifyJS
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Amplify store and Knockout can be great partners. For example, you can use client storage to improve user experience, remembering user preferences or previously entered values such that the user doesn’t have to start all over.
There is a tutorial on Knockout that provides for client storage. In the tutorial, Knockout uses Amplify to restore user data when the user revisits the site.
You can augment Knockout observables with additional functionality, by using extenders.
You can use extender to automatically store and restore any observable property. Continue reading
Single Page Apps – Local Data Store with AmplifyJS
You may want to use storage to store data. You can save the data your user has entered in a wizard. Or you might want to save data so you can provide an offline experience. Or you may want to store user preferences. Local storage is a good idea anytime you do not want, or need your user or your application to start all over.
AmplifyJS is a very neat library that provides a consistent API to handle client storage that works in most browsers.
Of course, you can use HTML5 Local Storage. But amplify.store supports IE 5+, Firefox 2+, Safari 4+, Chrome, Opera 10.5+, iPhone 2+, Android 2+ and provides a consistent API to handle storage cross-browser.
Note: Because of the JSON dependency, you need to add json2.js for support in browsers without native JSON support, including IE 5, IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0.
HTML5 Tutorial – Local Storage
One of the new features that you may want to use in your line of business application is local storage. We can store data locally or use cookies.
localstorage provides a way to persist data on the client side without using cookies. The localStorage attribute provides persistent storage areas for domains. It allows Web applications to store nearly 10 MB of user data, such as entire documents or a user’s mailbox, on the client for performance reasons.
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