Local dependencies

[zant]

A new (and better) implementation of #77 thanks to @101arrowz and his cool lib isoworker.

Improvements over previous implementation:

• Support for more primitives (classes, objects, symbols etc)
• No need to use an object to access the functions, just using them normally (great one)

This is how it looks:

import { useWorker } from "@koale/useworker";
import { expensiveAdder } from './utils'

const fn = (a, b) => expensiveAdder(a,b) 

const [workerFn, {status: workerStatus, kill: workerTerminate }] = useWorker(fn, {
  timeout: 50000 // 5 seconds
  localDependencies: () => [expensiveAdder] // we pass the local function to the worker
});

I've updated the website and Readme with documentation regarding local deps, and also added some tests.

[101arrowz]

Mostly good, just a few minor tweaks would fix a few theoretical issues.

[101arrowz]

Since you're using just createContext, maybe importing only that function is better. No need to bundle the workerization code.

[zant]

This is a nice suggestion, but I tried it and I'm getting the following:

Can't import the named export 'createContext' from non EcmaScript module (only default export is available)

Are you familiar with that message?

[zant]

Hey @101arrowz, just saw your comment in the other discussion. This is the message I'm getting when changing it to a named export, do you have any ideas?

[101arrowz]

Hmm, it should be exporting ES6 modules. There is a module field of package.json and there is an ESM build exported. Maybe try importing from fflate/browser or fflate/esm/browser.js.

[zant]

Can't quite make it work with our current setup, could it be something related to our build config? @alewin

[alewin]

@zant seems strange but I'll try to check it tomorrow and update you here!

[101arrowz]

createContext returns a few other things, including some transferables that should be sent over. You should assign the received values of the transeferables to the global environment.

[alewin]

Great work @zant 🥇 , and thanks @101arrowz for your great lib isoworker it's magic 👀

[alewin]

I have published a beta containing the changes in this PR

npm i @koale/useworker@3.3.0-beta

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@koale/useworker/v/3.3.0-beta
@zant @101arrowz

[alewin]

#77 (comment) 🎉 @zant @101arrowz