High performance storage for your app: the Storage Foundation API
The Storage Foundation API resembles a basic file system, with direct access to stored data through buffers and offsets. It gives developers flexibility by providing generic, simple, and performant primitives on which they can build higher-level components.
The Storage Foundation API is part of the capabilities project and is currently in development. This post will be updated as the implementation progresses.
The web platform increasingly offers developers the tools they need to build fined-tuned high-performance applications for the web. Most notably, WebAssembly (Wasm) has opened the door to fast and powerful web applications, while technologies like Emscripten now allow developers to reuse tried and tested code on the web. To truly leverage this potential, developers must have the same power and flexibility when it comes to storage.
This is where the Storage Foundation API comes in. The Storage Foundation API is a new fast and unopinionated storage API that unlocks new and much-requested use cases for the web, such as implementing performant databases and gracefully managing large temporary files. With this new interface, developers can "bring their own storage" to the web, reducing the feature gap between web and platform-specific code.
