Where is this storing at?

[Brandon-Perry]

Quick question,

So far it seems to work fine, I'm able to save and get information. But one thing that's confusing me is where exactly my information is being stored. I have React Native Debugger running and I looked at the local storage tab and I don't see my information in there. Is it hidden somewhere else?

[tido64]

As far as I know, the local storage tab is just something that comes with Chrome debugger for debugging web apps. It's not meant for React Native apps. You might want to look into using Flipper and a plugin for AsyncStorage.

[Foxeye-Rinx]

I just got a bug in my code while working on web with expo, the AsyncStorage.getItem() returns mismatch with the Chrome's devtool

The problem is when the devtool is crashed somehow by extensions or other reasons. It does not throw any error and I didn't know it was crashed already. So even tried to put a random string on the key (on chrome devtool), but actually the string was not saved into the window.localStorage and cause misleading.

To solve: close the chrome devtool and open again.

[tamish-max]

What you're seeing is expected: React Native AsyncStorage is not the same thing as the browser's localStorage, so it won't show up in the Chrome / React Native Debugger local-storage tab.

On React Native, the package stores data in the app's native persistent storage (inside your app sandbox). On web, the implementation is different again.

From your code's point of view, the important part is just that it is persistent key/value storage:

await AsyncStorage.setItem('@user', JSON.stringify(user))
const raw = await AsyncStorage.getItem('@user')
const parsed = raw ? JSON.parse(raw) : null

If you want to inspect what is there, a more reliable approach is:

const keys = await AsyncStorage.getAllKeys()
console.log(keys)

and then read specific keys with getItem.

For tooling, Flipper has historically been the better option for native storage inspection than the browser debugger tab.

So short version: your data is stored natively, not in the debugger's web localStorage view.