This is a proof of concept of exposing a sync calls API from the Web Worker
The problem
It’s only possible to make async calls when a Web Worker sends messages to the
main thread or other Worker threads, ie postMessage and addEventListener.
Sometimes we want to use synchronous calls instead for various reasons.
Solution
It is possible to use SharedArrayBuffer,
Atomics.wait and Atomics.notify to
achieve that.
Files:
- main.js — main thread which exposes API to the Worker thread
- worker.js — Worker thread with sync calls
- api.js — this file includes both main thread logic and Worker thread logic implementation
