Storage events

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Whenever a value in set in localStorage, a storage event will be dispatched on all other windows from the same origin. This can be used to synchronize state between different pages without reloading or communicating with a server. For example, we can reflect the value of an input element as paragraph text in another window:

First Window

var input = document.createElement('input');
document.body.appendChild(input);

input.value = localStorage.getItem('user-value');

input.oninput = function(event) {
  localStorage.setItem('user-value', input.value);
};

Second Window

var output = document.createElement('p');
document.body.appendChild(output);

output.textContent = localStorage.getItem('user-value');

window.addEventListener('storage', function(event) {
  if (event.key === 'user-value') {
    output.textContent = event.newValue;
  }
});

Notes

Event is not fired or catchable under Chrome, Edge and Safari if domain was modified through script.

First window

// page url: http://sub.a.com/1.html
document.domain = 'a.com';

var input = document.createElement('input');
document.body.appendChild(input);

input.value = localStorage.getItem('user-value');

input.oninput = function(event) {
  localStorage.setItem('user-value', input.value);
};

Second Window

// page url: http://sub.a.com/2.html
document.domain = 'a.com';

var output = document.createElement('p');
document.body.appendChild(output);

// Listener will never called under Chrome(53), Edge and Safari(10.0).
window.addEventListener('storage', function(event) {
  if (event.key === 'user-value') {
    output.textContent = event.newValue;
  }
});

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