Deleting from localStorage: should I use delete or .removeItem?
I'm using localStorage
in a Chrome extension.
Is there any difference between delete localStorage[key]
and window.localStorage.removeItem(key)
or do they behave identically?
Note that I choose window.localStorage.removeItem(key)
to correspond exactly to the spec, but localStorage.removeItem(key)
is how it would probably look in the wild.
There's no difference in Chrome, but i recommend using localStorage.removeItem(key) so that you get in the habit of doing so. That way, when you go to use localStorage in a website, you are already using the method that is most likely to work with shims and polyfills for outdated browsers.