How Do you pass flages to NodeJS such as '--experimental-worker'?

[vijayee]

How do you pass in flags to node to enable experimental features like '--experimental-worker'. I want to use the node version of workers in my electron application.

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[sofianguy]

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[vijayee]

@sofianguy Yeah ..... the forum and slack is dead. How does anyone actually get help with electron. There are other people having the same issue as me needing help.

[ghost]

Need help with this also. Using Parcel and need --experimental-worker.

[crossle]

How to enable --experimental-worker?

[vijayee]

@oyalhi and @crossle The way you would enable it is $ electron --js-flags="--experimental-worker" your-app taken from https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/451b1782acfef01dd0758e7b9ddb329700626b98/docs/api/chrome-command-line-switches.md
However this will not work because this flag is not available to see all flags you can use $ electron --js-flags="--help" your-app and it is not listed. So unfortunately no worker threads in electron yet. I have been using the cluster api instead until this feature is no longer experimental.
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/docs/api/cluster.html
I have example code here https://github.com/vijayee/js-offs/blob/master/src/block-cache-cluster.js
vs its worker counterpart https://github.com/vijayee/js-offs/blob/master/src/block-cache-worker.js