Anatomy
The structure of a Lore application
The structure of a Lore application
This is a utility file to help detect whether the browser the application is running in provides access to localStorage.
This file is necessary because while all modern browsers support it, there are edge cases where they chose not to (such as "Private Browsing Mode" in Safari) and attempting to access localStorage in those situations will cause the application to crash.
This file attempts to run that detection in a safe way, and returns true or false based on whether the application has permission to access localStorage.
The code in this file is copied directly from this link on the MDN Web Docs, which contains additional discussion.
The default file included in new projects looks like this:
export default function storageAvailable(type) {
try {
let storage = window[type];
let x = '__storage_test__';
storage.setItem(x, x);
storage.removeItem(x);
return true;
}
catch (e) {
return e instanceof DOMException && (
// everything except Firefox
e.code === 22 ||
// Firefox
e.code === 1014 ||
// test name field too, because code might not be present
// everything except Firefox
e.name === 'QuotaExceededError' ||
// Firefox
e.name === 'NS_ERROR_DOM_QUOTA_REACHED') &&
// acknowledge QuotaExceededError only if there's something already stored
storage.length !== 0;
}
}