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react-hooks-worker

React custom hooks for web workers

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React custom hooks for web workers.

Introduction

Web Workers are another thread from the main thread in browsers. We can run heavy computation in a separate thread so that users don't feel slowing down.

React provides a reactive system. This library hides the async nature of Web Workers with React custom hooks. Results returned by Web Workers are stored in a React local state.

Developers can implement a worker as:

  • sync function
  • async function
  • sync generator function
  • async generator function

Install

npm install react-hooks-worker

Usage

slow_fib.worker.js:

import { exposeWorker } from 'react-hooks-worker';

const fib = i => (i <= 1 ? i : fib(i - 1) + fib(i - 2));

exposeWorker(fib);

app.js:

import React from 'react';

import { useWorker } from 'react-hooks-worker';

const createWorker = () => new Worker(new URL('./slow_fib.worker', import.meta.url));

const CalcFib = ({ count }) => {
  const { result, error } = useWorker(createWorker, count);
  if (error) return <div>Error: {error}</div>;
  return <div>Result: {result}</div>;
};

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <CalcFib count={5} />
  </div>
);

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Pending status

The communication between main thread and worker thread is not RPC model. It can be one input to return multiple outputs, or multiple inputs to get one output.

Handling pending or stale status is left for library users. Refer #44 for a recipe for isStale.

API

exposeWorker

expose worker

You can expose any function that returns:

  • A value
  • A promise
  • An iterable
  • An async iterable
Parameters
  • func function (data: any): any
Examples
import { exposeWorker } from 'react-hooks-worker';

const fib = (i) => (i <= 1 ? i : fib(i - 1) + fib(i - 2));

exposeWorker(fib);

useWorker

use worker

The createWorker function should be stable to keep the worker running. If it's referentially changed, it will create a new worker and terminate the old one.

Parameters
  • createWorker function (): Worker
  • input any
Examples
import { useWorker } from 'react-hooks-worker';

const createWorker = () => new Worker(new URL('./slow_fib.worker', import.meta.url));

const CalcFib = ({ count }) => {
  const { result, error } = useWorker(createWorker, count);
  if (error) return <div>Error: {error}</div>;
  return <div>Result: {result}</div>;
};

Examples

The examples folder contains working examples. You can run one of them with

PORT=8080 npm run examples:01_minimal

and open http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

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Package last updated on 05 Mar 2022

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