Cannot watch localStorage

[Bryan Miner]

Tried:

localStorage.setItem('name, 'gymbry');
watch(localStorage, 'name', function () { alert() });
localStorage.setItem('name, 'stuff');
which returns nothing.

Tried:

localStorage.watch('name', function () { alert() });

which says "Undefined is not a function".
Also tried:

watch(JSON.parse(localStorage), 'name', function () { alert() });

and

JSON.parse(localStorage).watch('name', function () { alert() });

which returns error "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o".
This same error is returned when using Object.observe().

[ng-webtools]

Did you ever solve this @gymbry ? Outside of some dirty checking, I'm running out of options for a use case like this.

[Gil Lopes Bueno]

Yeah, that will not work, localStorage is not a plain object