A simple script to deal safely with the localStorage

local-storage.js

/**
 * Deal with the localStorage avoiding odd issues due to paranoids that have disabled it by default
 */
const ls = window.localStorage

/**
 * Call any method on the localStorage avoiding to throw errors
 * @param {string} method - method we want to call
 * @param {array} args - serialized params that will be proxied to the method we are going to call
 * @returns {null|string} whatever the method call will return
 */
function tryOrFailSilently(method, ...args) {
  try {
    return ls[method].apply(ls, args)
  } catch (e) {
    console && console.error && console.error(e)
    return null
  }
}

/**
 * Simple object to read get and clear from the localStorage
 */
export default {
  set(item, value) {
    return tryOrFailSilently('setItem', item, value)
  },
  get(item) {
    return tryOrFailSilently('getItem', item)
  },
  clear() {
    return tryOrFailSilently('clear')
  },
  remove(item) {
    return tryOrFailSilently('removeItem', item)
  }
}