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Promise Worker for Deno

Please note: this is an initial build, it may not even work. Deno promise wrapper for web workers

Usage

Please familiarize yourself with Deno workers beforehand!

In main thread:

import {PromiseWorker} from 'https://deno.land/x/promiseworker/mod.ts'

const poloPromise = new PromiseWorker(new URL("./worker.ts", import.meta.url).href, { type: "module" })

console.log(await poloPromise.sendPromise('Marco')) // Output: MarcoPolo

In worker.ts

import {receivePromise} from 'https://deno.land/x/promiseworker/mod.ts'

receivePromise((message) => {
    return message + 'Polo'
})

Error Handling

If an error is thrown in the receivePromise callback defined in worker.ts, the promise will fail properly.

Main thread:

import {PromiseWorker} from 'https://deno.land/x/promiseworker/mod.ts'

const poloPromise = new PromiseWorker(new URL("./worker.ts", import.meta.url).href, { type: "module" })

try {
    console.log(await poloPromise.sendPromise('Marco is lost')) // Output: MarcoPolo
} catch(error) {
    console.log(error) // Returns Error! Marco is Lost!
}

Obviously you can also use sendPromise(...).then(...).catch(...)

In worker.ts

import {receivePromise} from 'https://deno.land/x/promiseworker/mod.ts'

receivePromise((message) => {
    if (message == 'Marco is lost') { throw new Error('Error! Marco is lost!')}
    return message + 'Polo'
})