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Fundamentals × What Makes a Website Slow?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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What's the Difference Between Local Storage and Caching?

Caching is something that's done from the server, and it's in the response back to the client. It should be cached on your user's computer, if you even want to do that at all. Local storage potentially could be seen as a means of caching or session storage. Those are two features that your browser has that kind of act as like a key value store.

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