HTML5 Lockable Storage

Manage concurrency between browser tabs running independent processes by (a)synchronizing the localStorage resource.

This is the implementation by Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe as posted in his 2012 article JavaScript concurrency and locking the HTML5 localStorage.

Install

bower install lockablestorage

or

  npm install lockable-storage

Usage

import createLocker from 'lockable-storage';
import store from 'store';

const locker = createLockableStorage(store);
locker.lock('key', function () {
    // exclusive access to localStorage['key']
});