v2.1 • Utils • 3kb gzipped • MIT
WorkerPool
Worker orchestration with transferables, backpressure and a promise-shaped API.
// why workerpool
Workers without the ceremony
Call a worker function and await it. Message plumbing, pooling and transferables are handled underneath.
// stack
Backpressure aware
A saturated pool queues rather than spawning until the tab falls over.
WorkerPool started as a single file in a client project and stayed small on purpose. It does one job, it does it in 3kb gzipped, and it has no runtime dependencies.
Getting started
Install it, import it, call it:
npm i workerpool-jsCall a worker function and await it. Message plumbing, pooling and transferables are handled underneath.
What it does not do
It does not manage your state, style your components or ship a plugin system. Those are your decisions, and keeping them out is what keeps the bundle honest.
- Transferable detection
- Queue with backpressure
- MIT licensed, commercially friendly
Features
Transferable detection
Buffers are transferred instead of copied whenever it is safe to do so.
Queue with backpressure
Pool size adapts to hardware concurrency and holds the queue when saturated.
Documented properly
Every public function has a worked example, not just a signature.
ESM and types
Ships module and CommonJS builds with hand-written type definitions and source maps.
Tree-shakes cleanly
Every export is side-effect free, so importing one function costs one function.
Tested to the edges
Ninety-eight percent branch coverage, with the awkward cases written first.
Get WorkerPool v2.1
9 files • .min.js 3kb • .zip 42kb • sha384 verified
Changelog
- Automatic transferable detection
- Pool sizes to hardware concurrency
- Cancellation via AbortSignal
- Improved error messages for invalid options
- Added twenty regression tests
- Node 18 is now the minimum supported version
- CommonJS build restored for older bundlers
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