Multithread is a little JavaScript library that helps you use multiple threads in the browser. It uses webworkers but supports nested threads (I don't know any browser that supports nested webworkers), and it has a dead simple api.
say you have a function myFunction, and you would like it to run in a background thread, all you need to do is use the global multithread function to create a new thread:
multithread(myFunction)(myArg)This will return a Promise that will be resolved once myFunction returns a value in the background thread, so you can use is with async/await (myFunction doesn't have to be a async function).
But what if myFunction calls some other function otherFunction? you can give multithread an array of all function you may call so they will be written to the webworker:
multithread(myFunction, [otherFunction])(myArg)That's it, it's as simple as that!
You can measure the performance in this merge sort test.