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. T...

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Stop Writing postMessage Manually For Workers — I Built a Decorator for That

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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 { private count = 0; increment() { t

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