jobworker
v3.0.2
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WebWorker background job worker
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JobWorker
JobWorker is an utility to create background job workers. This module provides a transport to work with WebWorker
, but can also be transport agnostic.
Installation
$ npm install jobworker
Usage
Create a web-worker "myworker.js" using:
var jw = require("jobworker");
var server = new jw.WebWorkerServer();
// Register some methods
server.register({
// Task can be sync
hello: function() {
return "World";
},
// Or async:
testAsync: function() {
return doSomethingSync()
.then(function() {
// it should return a promise
});
}
});
// Run the worker
server.start();
And in your application, access the web-worker using:
var jw = require("jobworker");
var worker = new jw.WebWorkerClient("myworker.js");
// Call a method
worker.callMethod("hello")
.then(function(msg) {
});
// Or create a binded nethod:
var testAsync = worker.method("testAsync");
Custom Transport
Events and WebWorker are good examples on how to write a custom transport.