lum.web-workers.js

A collection of functions and classes for working with Web Workers.

It is partially based on my previous @lumjs/service-worker package, which it will replace entirely with a simpler, cleaner, yet more capable API. Unlike that package, this is written as ESM, and has no runtime dependencies.

Like the rest of my web-* packages, this is designed to be used with a bundler to create the actual JS files that will be used in your web app. The bundler you use is entirely up to you (I most commonly pick Webpack).

Exports

@lumjs/web-workers/common

Not meant for use on its own, this is just some common helper functions used by the various context-specific modules.

@lumjs/web-workers/service

A module for use in a Service Worker context. In addition to including everything from the worker module, this also provides a whole bunch of features specific to Service Workers, including:

• Create and manage caches with various caching strategies:
  • Cache-First
  • Cache-First-with-Refresh
  • Network-First
• Push API middleware

@lumjs/web-workers/window

A module for use in a browser window context. This provides simple helpers to register, activate, and communicate with the various types of workers.

@lumjs/web-workers/worker

A module for use in both Dedicated and Shared Worker contexts. This is currently just a stub module, but will be fleshed out in the future.

Official URLs

This library can be found in two places:

• Github
• NPM

Author

Timothy Totten [email protected]

License

MIT