Advantages over localStorage

[pannous]

why not just use window.localStorage?

[sindresorhus]

Many reasons:

• localStorage only works in the browser process.
• localStorage is not very fault tolerant, so if your app encounters an error and quits unexpectedly, you could lose the data.
• localStorage only supports persisting strings. This module supports any JSON supported type.
• The API of this module is much nicer. You can set and get nested properties. You can set default initial config.

[pannous]

okay nice!!

I suggests to copy this list to the readme.md

[paranoidjk]

IMO，localStorage is not very safe, it may be leak through xss attack.

[rnmp]

Another advantage is subscriptions!

[timfish]

It's also worth noting that localStorage and indexedDb data can be lost if a user installs an older version of your app which uses an older version of Electron.

Chromium only caters for upgrades to the underlying levelDb store. If you run a previous version of Electron, it can fail to read the levelDb store and deletes it to start again from scratch!