actor-proc

Actor pattern implementation in JavaScript

Motivation

JavaScript is based upon a single event loop which handles one event at a time that means that CPU heavy tasks will block other tasks from being executed. In case of a browser environment, the browser will not response to user events.

actor-proc offers an easy way to offload business access layer tasks from the main event loop onto dedicated workers, which run independently in parallel in dedicated threads in a browser environment, Web Workers

Getting Started

Install via yarn:

yarn add actor-proc

Install via npm:

npm i --save actor-proc

API

The API of actor-proc consists of two parts: a function registerActor(actor: Actor) to add actors in the Actor System, and spawnActorSystem(url: string): ActorSystemProcess to spawn the Actor System with actors inside of a dedicated worker (the url refers to the actor system javascript bundle).

Examples

Examples are available in the examples directory: https://github.com/ddoronin/actor-system/tree/master/examples