Workinator
Run your CPU intensive functions in a separate thread on the fly, and keep your application running at 60FPS.
- Works on both Browser or Nodejs
- Minimal API
- Tiny package, ~1KB gzipped
- Supports both synchronous or asynchronous code.
- Automatically cleans up memory after worker thread is finished executing.
Getting Started
yarn add @kimera/workinator
// or
npm i @kimera/workinatorHow it works
import workinator from '@kimera/workinator';
const work = () => {
// blocking thread for 2 secs
const start = new Date().getTime();
while (new Date().getTime() < start + 2000) { }
return 'Work finished'
}
const main = async () => {
const status = await workinator(work);
console.log(status);
}
main()Thats it!.
Async with promises
import workinator from '@kimera/workinator';
workinator(() => new Promise(resolve => {
setTimeout(() => {
resolve('Work Finished');
}, 2000)
})).then(console.log)
// or
const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
workinator(async () => {
await sleep(2000);
return 'Work Finished';
}).then(console.log)
