Description

The nature of JavaScript is to be single threaded. This is reflected not only in libraries and applications, but also in online forum posts, books, and online documentation. Thanks to recent advancements in the platform—such as with web workers in the browser, worker_threads in Node.js, and the Atomics and SharedArrayBuffer objects—JavaScript engineers are able to build multi-threaded applications. These features will go down as being the biggest paradigm shift for the world’s most popular programming language.

Multithreaded JavaScript explores the various features that JavaScript runtimes have at their disposal for implementing multithreaded programming, using a spectrum of API reference material and high level programming patterns.

   Learn what multithreaded programming is and how you can benefit from it
   Understand the differences between a dedicated worker, a shared worker, and a service worker
   Identify when and when not to use threads in an application
   Orchestrate communication between threads by leveraging the Atomics object
   Understand both the gains and pitfalls of using shared memory
   Benchmark performance to learn when you’ll benefit from multiple threads

Book Details

   Language: English
   Published: 2021
   ISBN: 1098104439
   Format: True EPUB