bs-webworkers

Reason Bindings for the Web Workers API

This repository contains bindings for the Web Workers API.

Read more about these here, but keep in mind these bindings have been improved since this article was written.

Example

The main script creates a new Web Worker from the worker.re script and posts a message to it. The Web Worker replies back to that message. The main thread listens to that and prints out the message it received from the Web Worker.

main.re

let worker = WebWorkers.create_webworker("worker.bs.js");

let msg = {"text": "Hello world"};

WebWorkers.postMessage(worker, msg);

let msgBackHandler = (e: WebWorkers.MessageEvent.t) => {
  Js.log("I am the main thread and I have received a message back from the worker:");
  Js.log(WebWorkers.MessageEvent.data(e))
};

WebWorkers.onMessage(worker, msgBackHandler);

worker.re

WebWorkers.setWorkerOnMessage(
  WebWorkers.self,
  (e: WebWorkers.MessageEvent.t) => {
    Js.log("I am the Web Worker and I have received a message:");
    Js.log(WebWorkers.MessageEvent.data(e));
    WebWorkers.postMessageFromWorker("my result")
  }
);

Installation

1. Install the bindings using npm install --save bs-webworkers
2. Add the bindings to bsconfig.json:

{
  "bs-dependencies": [
      "bs-webworkers"
  ]
}

Look in the example/ directory for an example of how to use the bindings.

Build

npm install
npm run build

Tests

npm install
npm run test

Demo

npm install
npm run example

Todo

The full Web Workers API is still not yet implemented (e.g. Shared Workers, Service Worker, WorkerNavigator, WorkerLocation, etc.). PRs are welcome!