How do I find out where Visual Studio Code holds its localstorage data?

[ambradnum]

I have finished the Learn localStorage course. I could see the localStorage in my Browser Console but was wondering where Visual Studio Code holds local Storage data. Not sure where to ask this (JavaScript or General?)

[lasjorg]

The Web Storage API is a browser API, your editor has nothing to do with it. It is stored in the browser.

[ambradnum]

Thank you for replying

Which browser? I closed my Firefox browser before I started the code in VS Code. It worked fine in VS Code, using data as the key. When I closed VS Code and restarted my computer and went back into VS Code the tasks were still there. I then looked in my Firefox browser console but there was no local storage for data.

[lasjorg]

@ambradnum

Which browser?

Whatever browser ran the code.

You can use the Storage Inspector inside Firefox.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/storage_inspector/index.html

(In Chrome is it on the Application tab of the dev tools)

[ambradnum]

I’m still confused

This is what I get right now from Firefox Storage Inspector:

and this is what I get from Chrome (which is where I think my VS Code is running, but I’m not 100% sure about that)

This is what my VS Code looks like:

and when I press Run Without Debugging I get this:

[lasjorg]

You need to selected/click the items inside the menu.

> Local Storage
  The storage item for that domain

Also, serve the page using something like the Liver Server extension.

Window: localStorage property - Web APIs | MDN

For documents loaded from file: URLs (that is, files opened in the browser directly from the user’s local filesystem, rather than being served from a web server) the requirements for localStorage behavior are undefined and may vary among different browsers.

[ambradnum]

This is what I get from Chrome:

and

This is what I get from Firefox:

I don’t understand what you mean by
Also, try serving the page using something like the Liver Server extension.

Where, and how, would I do that?

[lasjorg]

I updated my post with the link to the extension.

[ambradnum]

Thank you - I’ll read these and get back to you

[ambradnum]

Thank you for you assistance - you made me think about the fact that VSCode asked me whether I wanted to use Web (Chrome) - whereas I was just thinking Chrome.

So I googled and got the following:

and so I looked there and there were the databases!

So now I know