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Digital · Guided lesson

Detect another tab and state the limits

About 29 minutes · 7 reading + 22 practice and checks
Time includes reading, practice, and questions. Extra videos or further study are optional.
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A fictional local reading-list app with versioned saved data, explicit browser-only wording, validated JSON export/import and corrupt-save recovery tests.

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What to include

  • Document the exact storage origin and distinguish reload persistence from account synchronization.
  • Retain the validated envelope format and prove an invalid replacement leaves the earlier record intact.
  • Demonstrate a rejected corrupt load and a failed write without silently discarding prior data.
  • Create and inspect an actual JSON export and state its exact contents.
  • Produce a valid/invalid import matrix proving rejected content retains the previous list.
  • Deliver a two-tab observation or truthful unavailable note, alongside the validated backup/recovery project.

Review and revise

Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.

  • The implementation or declared simulation follows the supplied contract and retains inspectable original inputs.
  • Normal, boundary and rejected cases are recorded with expected versus observed results.
  • The changed case has a correct explanation and does not rely on hidden state.
  • The project includes source, outputs, instructions and honest tool, privacy and verification limits.
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The idea in everyday life

Use the supplied reading.html, reading-store.mjs and test-reading.mjs with the invented title Moon Garden. Serve the folder at http://localhost:8765 using python3 -m http.server 8765 --bind 127.0.0.1.

The idea

A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

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Detect another tab and state the limits — original worked practice

A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

Use the supplied reading.html, reading-store.mjs and test-reading.mjs with the invented title Moon Garden. Serve the folder at http://localhost:8765 using python3 -m http.server 8765 --bind 127.0.0.1.

  1. 1. Step 1

    Open reading.html in two tabs at the same localhost origin. Add River Map in the first.

    You should see: The other tab shows a changed-list warning if the browser dispatches the event.

    A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

  2. 2. Step 2

    In the warned tab, try Add and save. Read the blocked-add message.

    You should see: The tab requests export/reload before further additions.

    A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

  3. 3. Step 3

    Export any wanted draft, reload, and compare the latest stored revision.

    You should see: The reloaded tab uses the current saved envelope.

    A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

  4. 4. Step 4

    Package all seven Node checks and observed browser cases; mark unavailable storage-event checks separately.

    You should see: A browser-saving project with backup/recovery evidence and concurrency limits.

    A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution.

Now change one thing

A change comes from localhost:8766 rather than 8765. Must the 8765 tab receive its storage event?

Your work

What to finish

Deliver a two-tab observation or truthful unavailable note, alongside the validated backup/recovery project.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Treating a revision number and warning as complete concurrent-write protection.

How can I tell I understand it?

Demonstrate the rule: A storage event reports changes from another document sharing the origin. The warning reduces accidental overwrite but is not a transactional multi-user conflict solution. Use the supplied variant to distinguish a changed result from a broken implementation.

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Quick knowledge check

Answer all 3 questions. Get at least 2 right and the lesson completes automatically.

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1Why does another reading tab show a warning after a shared-origin change?
2Does this warning make the reading app a transactional shared database?
3Which evidence distinguishes the supplied Node run from a browser event test?
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developer.mozilla.org — localStorage
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

developer.mozilla.org — StorageEvent
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

developer.mozilla.org — Blob
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

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