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How to Save High Scores in Local Storage
After creating a game, it would be nice to save our best scores. If we only save the score in memory it will be gone the next time we play. Instead, we can save the scores in the browser’s local storage.
This article steps through how to save high scores in local storage and then how to present them on the screen for the player. If you want to read about the games that inspired this article you can read about it here:
Local storage
With local storage, we can store data in the browser in the form of key-value pairs, where both the key and the value are strings. The data is persisted across browser sessions and its scope is limited to the origin where the script that accesses local storage resides.
Different browsers use different storages, so data is not shared between different browsers on the same computer — each browser has its unique storage.
The following snippets show how we can use localStorage:
