local-startpage v0.2.2

local-startpage

local-startpage is a dynamic web browser startpage using localStorage.

• No database needed (Web Storage)
• One 12kb HTML file including CSS and JavaScript
• Saved data gets lost when clearing browser cookies (Firefox) or cache (Chrome) when set to clear "Everything"
• Stored data is browser specific

As GitHub Page: https://jltk.github.io/local-startpage/

Install

Only startpage.html is required.

    ┌─ README.md
    ├─ LICENSE.md
    ├─ package.json
    └─ /local-startpage
        ├─ startpage.html       // open/set this file as startpage in your browser
        └─ favicon.ico          // optional

Install via git

$ git clone https://github.com/jltk/local-startpage.git

Install via npm

$ npm install local-startpage

You can use npm install --prefix /path/to/dir local-startpage --global to install to a specific directory.

Browser support

Tested with Mozilla Firefox 59 and Chrome 66 on Windows.

• https://caniuse.com/#search=Web%20Storage
• https://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
• https://caniuse.com/#search=CSS%20variables

License

GNU General Public License v3.0. All image files in this repository are created by me and are also licensed with GNU/GPL v3.0.

Further reading

• https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/#dom-localstorage
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Storage
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9948284/how-persistent-is-localstorage