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Vivek Anand Sharma
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title: Worker Threads
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## Worker Threads
[Worker Threads](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html) is a Node.js default library made to enable the use of threads that execute JavaScript in parallel. They are useful for performing CPU-intensive JavaScript operations. They will not help much with I/O-intensive work. Node.js's built-in asynchronous I/O operations are more efficient than Workers can be. They became available in Node.js 10.5.0. Prior to Node.js 11.7.0.
### Get Started
#### Requiring Worker Threads
```js
const worker = require('worker_threads');
```
#### Worker Main Thread
```js
const { Worker, isMainThread } = require('worker_threads');
if (isMainThread) {
// This re-loads the current file inside a Worker instance.
new Worker(__filename);
} else {
console.log('Inside Worker!');
console.log(isMainThread); // Prints 'false'.
}
```
#### Worker Thread Prime Number Example
```js
const { Worker, isMainThread, parentPort, workerData } = require('worker_threads');
const min = 2;
let primes = [];
function generatePrimes(start, range) {
let isPrime = true;
let end = start + range;
for (let i = start; i < end; i++) {
for (let j = min; j < Math.sqrt(end); j++) {
if (i !== j && i%j === 0) {
isPrime = false;
break;
}
}
if (isPrime) {
primes.push(i);
}
isPrime = true;
}
}
if (isMainThread) {
const max = 1e7;
const threadCount = +process.argv[2] || 2;
const threads = new Set();;
console.log(`Running with ${threadCount} threads...`);
const range = Math.ceil((max - min) / threadCount);
let start = min;
for (let i = 0; i < threadCount - 1; i++) {
const myStart = start;
threads.add(new Worker(__filename, { workerData: { start: myStart, range }}));
start += range;
}
threads.add(new Worker(__filename, { workerData: { start, range: range + ((max - min + 1) % threadCount)}}));
for (let worker of threads) {
worker.on('error', (err) => { throw err; });
worker.on('exit', () => {
threads.delete(worker);
console.log(`Thread exiting, ${threads.size} running...`);
if (threads.size === 0) {
console.log(primes.join('\n'));
}
})
worker.on('message', (msg) => {
primes = primes.concat(msg);
});
}
} else {
generatePrimes(workerData.start, workerData.range);
parentPort.postMessage(primes);
}
```
#### Why and When use Worker Thread
- When you want to do multi threading operations in Node.js.
- When you want to activate a thread in thread pool for processing.
#### More information
- [Official NodeJS site for Worker Thread](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html)
- [npm package for Worker Thread](https://www.npmjs.com/package/worker-thread)