localStorageis a synchronous API. You can delay the execution of a method setItemusing an object Promise, giving them asynchronous behavior:
const asyncLocalStorage = {
setItem: function (key, value) {
return Promise.resolve().then(function () {
localStorage.setItem(key, value);
});
},
getItem: function (key) {
return Promise.resolve().then(function () {
return localStorage.getItem(key);
});
}
};
const data = Date.now() % 1000;
asyncLocalStorage.setItem('mykey', data).then(function () {
return asyncLocalStorage.getItem('mykey');
}).then(function (value) {
console.log('Value has been set to:', value);
});
console.log('waiting for value to become ' + data +
'. Current value: ', localStorage.getItem('mykey'));
See how it works on repl.it , as SO snippets do not allow use localStorage.