Worker Threads in Node.js

By DEV Community - 2020-12-27

Description

A look at worker threads in nodejs and shared memory. Tagged with node, programming, javascript, multithreading.

Summary

  • Introduction Workers threads in Node.js are a way to offload CPU intensive tasks away from the single-threaded process which Node gives you.
  • I have but One Thread to give - Node.js The decision to make Node.js single-threaded came from the decision of not changing the language design itself, Adding a multithread module to Javascript can change the way the language is written itself.
  • Check out this wonderful article about Shared buffers and Atomics here We can easily use the worker thread module by importing it into our file.
  • When memory is shared, multiple threads can read and write the same data in memory.

 

Topics

  1. Frontend (0.14)
  2. Backend (0.1)
  3. Mobile (0.1)

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