react-webworker-hook

A react custom hook to communicate with web worker. just specify the web worker url or a script that you want webworker to run and you will get access to any message, error it sends and postMessage handler which is used to communicate with web worker

Installation

npm install --save react-webworker-hook

Usage

a quick sample here https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/react-webworker-hook-example-6xt8rm

import React, { useState } from "react";
import useWebWorker from "react-webworker-hook";

function GenerateFibonacci() {
  const [data = 0, postData] = useWebWorker({
    url: "./webworker_example.js"
  });
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  return (
    <div>
      {`fibonacci for ${count}: ${data}`}
      <button
        onClick={() => {
          setCount(count + 1);
          postData(count);
        }}
      >
        Generate
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default GenerateFibonacci;

It also comes with other helper functions like when we have a small script which should be deployed into webworker

const [data, postData, error] = useWebWorkerFromScript(`
const fib = n => (n < 2 ? n : fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2));

onmessage = ({ data }) => {
  postMessage(fib(data));
};

`)

pass url of a web worker, webworker should be served from the same origin

const [data, postData, error] = useWebWorkerFromUrl('./webworker_example.js');

when we have an existing worker and it should be used through hook

const [data, postData, error] = useWebWorkerFromWorker('./webworker_example.js');

API

useWebWorker takes following arguments

a config object with either url or worker object

useWebWorker provides following values

• data - data which has been sent by webworker
• postMessage - handler which is used to communicatew with webworker
• error - which will contain an error object if thrown by web worker