Web Crypto API

• objectbuffer

  4 161 2.9 TypeScript

  JavaScript Object like api, backed by an arraybuffer

• rinzler

  1 56 3.8 TypeScript

  An autonomous parallel processing engine for the browser.

If you're interested in leveraging web workers easily for repetitive compute-heavy tasks in a webapp, i've built a little library that takes care of launching and managing worker threads for you: https://github.com/GitSquared/rinzler

• SurveyJS

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• wasm-futures-executor

  3 29 0.0 Rust

  Executor for asynchronous task based on wasm web workers.

By the way, I built something similar (?): A Rust library that mimics the API of the `futures-executor` crate, but each worker thread is a single WebWorker.

https://github.com/wngr/wasm-futures-executor

• wireworld-player

  1 8 2.4 JavaScript

  A multithreaded web app for loading and simulating instances of the Wireworld cellular automaton

This past year I've live streamed the development of a small web app that benefits enormously from web workers:

https://github.com/Rezmason/wireworld-player

https://rezmason.github.io/wireworld-player

As a simulation, the main thread asks a web worker to update the world state and then render the new state. By default, this happens once per requestAnimationFrame.

But there's a "Turbo" button (it looks like a radioactive hazard symbol) that allows the web worker to update as often as it can per requestAnimationFrame, speeding up the simulation around 72x while keeping the main thread 100% responsive.

The decoupling of the synchronous number crunching work from the main thread has also given me a place to experiment with much more resource intensive algorithms, like https://jennyhasahat.github.io/hashlife.html , which fills an enormous cache and can advance the sim by exponential time steps.

Modifying Hashlife to run in the main thread without freezing the app is possible, but it would have made the code much more complicated, run slower, and the other cores available to web workers would have gone unused.

• comlink

  22 10,818 0.0 TypeScript

  Comlink makes WebWorkers enjoyable.

  

• worktank

  1 34 6.6 TypeScript

  A simple isomorphic library for executing functions inside WebWorkers or Node Threads pools.

Workers are awesome but you are right, working with them can be painful without the right tooling.

Personally I've written my own libraries for abstracting all this away and I've having a blast working with workers now, maybe check them out:

- WorkTank [1]: This abstracts away the difference between browser workers and Node worker threads, it makes it easy to make worker pools, and it can transfer simple functions to a worker at runtime too.

- WorkTank loader: This abstracts away loading asynchronous function from a worker basically, you just add ".worker" to your file name and that file and all its dependencies are transparently replaced moved to a worker, all the rest of the app (TS types for example) doesn't even notice anything happened, it just works.

You might want to check out the more popular "comlink" library too, although it didn't work for me for whatever reason and it doesn't support worker pools I believe.

[1]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank

[2]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank-loader

• worktank-loader

  1 7 0.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued WebPack plugin for WorkTank which enables you to execute whole files in a worker pool, transparently.

Workers are awesome but you are right, working with them can be painful without the right tooling.

Personally I've written my own libraries for abstracting all this away and I've having a blast working with workers now, maybe check them out:

- WorkTank [1]: This abstracts away the difference between browser workers and Node worker threads, it makes it easy to make worker pools, and it can transfer simple functions to a worker at runtime too.

- WorkTank loader: This abstracts away loading asynchronous function from a worker basically, you just add ".worker" to your file name and that file and all its dependencies are transparently replaced moved to a worker, all the rest of the app (TS types for example) doesn't even notice anything happened, it just works.

You might want to check out the more popular "comlink" library too, although it didn't work for me for whatever reason and it doesn't support worker pools I believe.

[1]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank

[2]: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/worktank-loader

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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