Usage no npm install needed!

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README

worker-fns

Collection of Modern Worker Utility Functions

features

modern ES6 syntax
cross-platform (works on the Web and in NodeJS)
automatically create transfer list

functions

Documentation for the following can be found here

isTransferable
findTransferables
postMessageWithAutoTransfer
runOnlyOnce

install

npm install worker-fns

simple example

import { postMessageWithAutoTransfer } from 'worker-fns';

const worker = new Worker("./worker.js");
const response = await fetch("./example.dat");
const data = await response.arrayBuffer();

// automatically transfer ownership of array buffer
// to the worker thread avoiding unecessarily copying the data
postMessageWithAutoTransfer(worker, data);