
Stop Writing postMessage Manually For Workers — I Built a Decorator for That
Stop Writing postMessage Manually For Workers — I Built a Decorator for That Tags: angular, react, webdev, javascript Web Workers are one of the most underused features in modern web development. They let you run heavy JavaScript off the main thread — keeping your UI smooth and responsive. But the API is painful: // Standard Worker code — just to call ONE function const worker = new Worker ( ' ./my.worker.js ' ); const requestId = Math . random (); worker . postMessage ({ id : requestId , command : ' processData ' , payload : data }); worker . onmessage = ( event ) => { if ( event . data . id === requestId ) { console . log ( event . data . result ); } }; You need request IDs, response matching, manual routing, port management for SharedWorkers... for every single method call. So I built ngx-worker-bridge to eliminate all of that. What it looks like instead Define your background logic (runs in the worker thread): import { setState } from ' ngx-worker-bridge ' ; export class DataModule
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