String Set In Localstorage Gets As Object

I've JSON.stringified objects to save in localStorage, but they're retrieved as objects ( '[object Object]' ) that can't be parsed. Scenario: The first thing I do is localStorage.c

Solution 1:

You need to stringify an object before storing it:

localStorage.setItem('key', JSON.stringify(obj));

Then, when retrieving it, you just do

JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('key'));

The reason for this is that everything is stored as a string, so it calls the .toString() method, which for objects returns [object Object]

EDIT I noticed you said you did stringify the objects. I guess it would depend the format of the object then, but I haven't encountered any issue with not clearing storage beforehand.