How to use Web Workers in Angular

Are you tired of your Angular application freezing when you want to run computationally intense tasks?
In this TechTip , we show you how to set up a Web Worker to run a background process in under X minutes. Using Web Workers for long-running processes can dramatically enhance the user experience and performance of your angular apps,.

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[rembautimes]

Thanks a lot . I had a block of code which took 3000ms to execute. There were many organisms that lived and died in that interval 😊

[rhythmkhanna]

The first 2 minutes themselves are good enough for me to like this video. Keep it up buddy !!

[vutranleanh]

This video is very useful for me! You are rock!! Thank you so much!

[TheRealJacobWurz]

This tutorial is pretty good. You explain everything in pretty simple terms, thanks 👍

[billcooper]

Great job and great example! Could you do an example of multiple web-workers for different, but concurrent tasks? For instance, when a user fills out a reactive form and hits “submit.” Would you need different web workers to handle basic tasks like incrementing a formSubmissionCount vs saving the form in an sql user database?

[jaytimbadia]

Can we also use this for server Api's? I mean it takes too longer to run in the backend. I did not knew about this till now, so I did background task in my backend, so it wont block UI. But I believe this is client side background handling. So according to you, which is more better - server side or client side?

[Elven_Red]

Do I have to terminate my worker once I'm done using it (like dealing with threads in other languages), or can I just leave it alone and next time I get a new Worker it will use the same "shared thread space" so to speak?

[shervilgupta]

Had a doubt (sorry if it sounds stupid, just started with js/ts). Initially when we are calculating prime in the component itself won't js just ignore the return value if it's taking a long time and move to next lines logging the time taken as 0 ?

[malikrajat]

Great Help. Easy to understand and implementation Thanks man 😊😊😊