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9,626 PointsFetch API calls
Dear Folks, If anyone pls could help to understand how to work with this exercise.
I should make Ajax calls only when the “From/To” date selection changes, if dates have not changed I should not make another Ajax call to get the same data. I guess I need to familiarize myself with local storage to perform some validations. I tried to write some code but I need to check if item exists in local storage then just don't run another async Fetch call.
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9,626 PointsWhen I add this inside the returndates function within the loop there
for (let j = 0; j < dataList.length; j++) {
let dataListDate = dataList[j].date;
if (dataListDate != data) {
localStorage.setItem('recentDates', JSON.stringify(dataListDate));
} else {
localStorage.getItem('recentDates', JSON.parse(dataListDate));
}
} // inner loop
I get actually the date string but only the last date string not all of them
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9,626 PointsDear Mr.Steven Steven Parker .Could you suggest any way to achieve this ? Maybe even without the local storage I could do a validation if the data exists in the array then just don’t run another Fetch call. Thanks
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9,626 PointsI watched the local storage course yesterday and coded that along with the video. But I don't seem to understand how to set that validation yet.
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9,626 PointsAnd is there a limit with space of 5 MBS in LocalStorage? Cuz when I run it some images load super slowly or don't even load at first. I heard there's a limit of 5 MBS somewhere up to 100 MBS it's said. So it's a bit confusing. And that for production this is not really good as the browser can't do anything while loading it. But anyway this is just an exercise. It's not a production.
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9,626 PointsWhat I realized now that I shouldn't actually store the whole nasaDays array in the local storage.
But only the data that's received in the input of the date picker lets say from 01 till 05 which comes back as a string and then if the same string is there just don't make another Fetch API call. Though how to achieve still remains a big question
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9,626 PointsBecause if I send the whole data images, videos. That would be stupid I guess. It would occupy unnecessary space in the LocalStorage. Just by storing date strings, I would save on the space for sure
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9,626 PointsIf you have time Mr. Zimri Leijen
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9,626 PointsSteven Parker Mr.Steven, are you still here? I just wanted ur little suggestion
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9,626 PointsSo the only thing I need now is to realize how to target the whole collection of date strings instead of the last one