Saturday, April 16, 2016

Web workers


  • HTML5 introduced web workers to support JavaScript multi-threading.
  • Web workers run on a separate thread in parallel to browser's UI thread.
  • Web workers can only access limited objects such as functions, and objects like strings, numbers, Date, Array, XMLHttpRequest, etc.
  • The worker and the parent page communicate using messaging. Each can add a listener to the onmessage() event to receive messages from the other.
  • Read more from this article written by Robert Gravelle and from this article written by Eric Bidelman.

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