adding objects to array in localStorage

Question

Ok, I've tried to follow examples here, I know there might be a few different ways of adding objects to an array in localstorage and not overwriting it but I'm failing to find at least one of them.

Got this code to store objects in array but it's overwriting itself. May anyone show me what am I missing? (And I'm afraid I could be missing a lot).

function addEntry() {
    var entryTitle = document.getElementById("entryTitle").value;
    var entryText = document.getElementById("entryText").value;
    var entry = {
        "title": entryTitle,
        "text": entryText
    };
    localStorage.setItem("entry", JSON.stringify(entry));
    var allEntries = [];
    allEntries.push(entry);
    localStorage.setItem("allEntries", JSON.stringify(allEntries));
};

Answer 1

When you use setItem it overwrites the item which was there before it. You need to use getItem to retrieve the old list, append to it, then save it back to localStorage:

function addEntry() {
    // Parse any JSON previously stored in allEntries
    var existingEntries = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("allEntries"));
    if(existingEntries == null) existingEntries = [];
    var entryTitle = document.getElementById("entryTitle").value;
    var entryText = document.getElementById("entryText").value;
    var entry = {
        "title": entryTitle,
        "text": entryText
    };
    localStorage.setItem("entry", JSON.stringify(entry));
    // Save allEntries back to local storage
    existingEntries.push(entry);
    localStorage.setItem("allEntries", JSON.stringify(existingEntries));
};

Here is a fiddle which demonstrates the above.