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Today while browsing a list of web APIs over at MDN, I ran across one that surprised me – the Cookie Store API. This is clearly marked as experimental (currently only supported in Chrome/Edge) but looks to be fascinating. Cookies are the oldest (as far as I know) way for web applications to store data on the client. They’re also typically the least recommended way of doing so, for many, many reasons. However, sometimes you need to work with cookies, and this looks like a really nice new way of dealing with them. Here’s a quick look. The Old Way # For the past few hundred years or so, working with cookies in the browser involved string parsing. There really wasn’t even... more →