WorkerClientServer - WorkerClient/WorkerServer

WebWorker client/server

Installation

bower install WorkerClientServer

Usage

Browser

worker script

importScripts('WorkerServer.js');

var handlers = {
  foo: function(value){
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
      resolve {contents: value + "bar"};
    });
  },
  bigdata: function(values){
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
      ...
      var data = new Uint8Array(1000);
      resolve {contents: {baz: data}, transferable: [data.buffer]};
    });
  },
};

var server = new WorkerServer(handlers);

browser script

var worker = new Worker('./worker.js');
var client = new WorkerClient(worker);

// or

var worker_url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([worker_code], {type:"text/javascript"}));
var client = new URLWorkerClient(worker_url, true);

// or

var client = new InlineWorkerClient(worker_code, true);

client.request("foo", "data").then(function(contents){
  console.log(contents); // "databar"
}, function(error){...});

var data = new Uint8Array(1000);
client.request("bigdata", {boo: data}, [data.buffer]).then(function(contents){
  console.log(contents.baz);
}, function(error){...});

node.js or nw.js with child_process.fork()

worker script

var WorkerServer = require('WorkerServer.js');

var handlers = {
  foo: function(value){
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
      resolve {contents: value + "bar"};
    });
  },
};

var server = new WorkerServer(handlers);

main/browser script

var WorkerClient = require('WorkerClient.js');
var child_process = require('child_process');

var worker = child_process.fork('./worker.js');
var client = new WorkerClient(worker);

client.request("foo", "data").then(function(contents){
  console.log(contents); // "databar"
}, function(error){...});

API

read the doc/ or *.coffee docs

License

This is released under MIT License.