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Having Fun with

Web Workers!

Alessandro Bellesia

Front-end dev @ 24/Consulting

Web workers != SERVICE WORKER

SINGLE-THREAD

MULTI-THREAD

const myWorker = new Worker('worker.js')
myWorker.postMessage([42, 2])









const myWorker = new Worker('worker.js')
myWorker.postMessage([42, 2])





// worker.js
addEventListener('message', event => {
  const [a, b] = event.data
  postMessage(a * b)
}
const myWorker = new Worker('worker.js')
myWorker.postMessage([42, 2])
myWorker.addEventListener('message', event => {
  console.log(event.data)
}


// worker.js
addEventListener('message', event => {
  const [a, b] = event.data
  postMessage(a * b)
}
const myWorker = new Worker('worker.js')
myWorker.postMessage({
  operation: 'addition', 
  parameters: [42, 2]
})


// worker.js
addEventListener('message', event => {
  const { operation, parameters } = event.data
  switch (operation) {
      case: 'addition':
      	// ...
      case: 'subtraction':
      	// ...
  }
}

comlink

npm.im/comlink

> npm install comlink
// main.js







// worker.js
import {expose} from 'comlink'

 


// main.js







// worker.js
import {expose} from 'comlink'

const api = {
  someMethod() { /* ... */ }
}
expose(api)
// main.js
import {wrap} from 'comlink'






// worker.js
import {expose} from 'comlink'

const api = {
  someMethod() { /* ... */ }
}
expose(api)
// main.js
import {wrap} from 'comlink'

const worker = new Worker('./worker.js')
const api = wrap(worker)



// worker.js
import {expose} from 'comlink'

const api = {
  someMethod() { /* ... */ }
}
expose(api)
// main.js
import {wrap} from 'comlink'

const worker = new Worker('./worker.js')
const api = wrap(worker)
await api.someMethod()


// worker.js
import {expose} from 'comlink'

const api = {
  someMethod() { /* ... */ }
}
expose(api)

Module Builder

// no plugins needed! đŸ˜±
import myWorker from './worker?worker'
// npm install -D worker-plugin
import myWorker from 'worker-plugin/loader!./worker';
// npm install -D @surma/rollup-plugin-off-main-thread
import myWorker from "omt:./worker";

BLURHASH

npm.im/blurhash

> npm install blurhash
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LEHV6nWB2yk8pyo0adR*.7kCMdnj

base64

blurhash

C

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Kotlin 

JAVAscript

pyton

Go

PHP

JAVA

Nim

Rust

Ruby

Crystal

Elm

Dart

.NET

Haskell

Scala

Xojo

Zig

JAVASCRIPT

Demo

https://tinyurl.com/y866ehrn

JAVASCRIPT

Demo

https://tinyurl.com/y866ehrn

RENDERING

DELLA PAGINA

// main.js
const buffer = new SharedArrayBuffer(1);
// main.js
const worker = new Worker('worker.js');
const buffer = new SharedArrayBuffer(1);
const intArray = new Int8Array(buffer);

intArray[0] = 9;
worker.postMessage(buffer);







// worker.js
onmessage = (e) => {
  const intArray = new Int8Array(e.data);
  console.log('Data received from main thread: %i', intArray[0]);
}
> Data received from main thread: 9
// main.js
const worker = new Worker('worker.js');
const buffer = new SharedArrayBuffer(1);
const intArray = new Int8Array(buffer);

intArray[0] = 9;
worker.postMessage(buffer);



worker.onmessage = ()=>{
  console.log('Updated data received from worker: %i', intArray[0]);
}

// worker.js
onmessage = (e) => {
  const intArray = new Int8Array(e.data);
  console.log('Data received from main thread: %i', intArray[0]);
  
  intArray[0] = 7;
  postMessage('')
}
> Updated data received from worker: 7
// main.js
const worker = new Worker('worker.js');
const buffer = new SharedArrayBuffer(1);
const intArray = new Int8Array(buffer);

intArray[0] = 9;
worker.postMessage(buffer);

intArray[0] = 1;

worker.onmessage = ()=>{
  console.log('Updated data received from worker: %i', intArray[0]);
}

// worker.js
onmessage = (e) => {
  const intArray = new Int8Array(e.data);
  console.log('Data received from main thread: %i', intArray[0]);
  
  intArray[0] = 7;
  postMessage('')
}
> Data received from main thread: 1

PARTYTOWN

npm.im/@builder.io/partytown

> npm install @builder.io/partytown
<script type="text/partytown">
  /* Insert Script Here */
</script>

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By Alessandro Bellesia

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