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> Btw, does Chrome sync local storage across devices when logged in?

No, but extensions have an API to a storage which syncs itself across logged-in devices. So potentially you can have a setup where you create a website and an extension and the extension reads the website's localStorage and copies it to `chrome.storage.sync`.

Sounds like an interesting idea actually.



That's a clever solution

I've been playing with chrome extensions recently, and have made them directly talk to a local server with a db. So using extensions, it's relatively easy to to store data locally and potentially sync it across devices

I like the idea of leveraging chrome.storage.sync though, I wonder what the limitations are


> I wonder what the limitations are

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

says that there is a 100kb limit, and a 512 KV pair limit per extension.

Quite limiting, but if this pattern becomes popular I don't see why it can't be expanded to have the same limit as localStorage (5MB)




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