Worker-as-a-promise

A WebWorker enhancer for communicate through a classical asynchronous promised base interface

Example

import { decorateWorker } from 'worker-as-a-promise';

const myWorker = new Worker('My/worker/script.js');
const worker = decorateWorker(myWorker);

// Comunicate using promise interface
worker.sendMessage({message: `Hii!`})
    .then(response => console.log('Message processed succesfully', response)
    .catch(responseError => console.error('Error processing message', responseError));

// Classical WebWorker interface still available
worker.postMessage({message: 'Message with classical interface'});
worker.addMessageListener(({data}) => {
  console.log('Response with classical interface', data);
});

Utilities functions are provided by Worker-as-a-promise for manage messages in a worker-as-a-promise

• isMessageAsPromised
• getMessage
• createMessage
• createResponse
• createError

For more informations about how Multithread-it should be used. Have a look to example: Usage example