This talk will outlay basics of web workers, their usage in modern web apps, and caveats while implementing them. At the end of the talk, audience will have a idea about when to use web workers, when NOT to use it and how to implement it.

Outline

This is a rough mind map of talk topics:

1. What is a Web Worker ?
2. When to use it in a modern PWA ?
3. Under the Hood (Structured cloning algo, transferable objects)
4. Caveats
5. Some performance improvements
6. A real life example of Web Workers

Speaker bio

An Engineer in Front End Team at BookMyShow. I am into building scalable JS apps and prefer PWA over native apps. Also an OSS contributor to react-content-loader, webpack-cli and webpack-scaffold-pwa.

Links

• https://ajayposhak.github.io/