Puru Vijay • 6/5/2020

Web Workers: Intro and Basic Usage

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This article explains the concept of Web Workers in JavaScript, using an analogy of cars on a road to illustrate how they prevent blocking the main thread. It provides a technical definition, demonstrates basic setup and communication between the main script and a worker, and details what types of data can be passed. The tutorial includes simple code examples for initializing a worker and using postMessage.

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