How to prevent localStorage from saving same data

January 12, 2022

I made a program where anyone can log-in, but the problem is that it saves same names even if it’s already their in localStorage. I want it not to get saved when it’s already having the same name in localStorage

Here is my HTML5 & js code

<!-- HTML5 -->
<div>
  <!-- login -->
  <form>
    <!-- UserName -->
    <input id="name" type="text" placeholder="Enter name">
    <br>
    <!-- password -->
    <input id="password" type="password" placeholder="Enter password">
    <br><br>
    <!-- login button -->
    <button id="saveButton">Log in</button>
    <br><br>
  </form>
  <script src="./saveName.js"></script>
  <script src="./savePassword.js"></script>
</div>

//JAVASCRIPT
function saveNames() {
  var newNames = document.getElementById('name').value;

  if (localStorage.getItem('id') == null) {
    localStorage.setItem('id', '[]');
  }

  var old_data = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('id'));

  old_data.push(newNames);

  localStorage.setItem('id', JSON.stringify(old_data));

  alert(localStorage.getItem('id'));
}

saveButton.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  saveNames();
});

>Solution :

function saveNames() {
  var newNames = document.getElementById('name').value;

  if (localStorage.getItem('id') == null) {
    localStorage.setItem('id', '[]');
  }

  var old_data = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('id'));
  if (!old_data.includes(newNames)) {
  old_data.push(newNames);

  localStorage.setItem('id', JSON.stringify(old_data));
alert(localStorage.getItem('id'));
}
else return
}

saveButton.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  saveNames();
});