v1.3.1

Here comes a small patch release fixing an edge-casy, but annoying bug in the workers.

Bug fixes

• Prevent infinite recursion if uncaught error reporting throws (#219)

v1.3.0

A small minor release shipping a small new feature and fixes some TypeScript warnings.

New features

• Allow passing resource limits to worker threads (#216 by @haggholm)

Bug fixes

• Update observable-fns to get rid of TypeScript errors (#210)

v1.2.0

Small minor release, shipping a new way to wait for pool tasks to complete.

The new pool.settled() method now allows you to await the completion of all pool tasks. The difference to pool.completed() is that the promise won't be rejected if a task fails – the returned promise will always successfully resolve to an array of errors as thrown by failing tasks.

New features

• Add pool.settled() (#208)

v1.1.0

A minor release introducing the timeout option and custom data serializers.

The new custom serializers allow passing class instances and other non-trivial data between threads, that normally cannot be passed using the underlying .postMessage() method. Read the docs for details.

New features

• Add custom data serialization (#207)
• Add timeout option to spawn() (#206, credits to @haggholm)

v1.0.2

A small patch that fixes error handling for postMessage() errors when calling a worker from the main thread.

Bug fixes

• Handle postMessage() errors in main thread (#202)

v1.0.1

A small but important patch release. Fixes some webpack bundling troubles and terminates workers gracefully on SIGTERM.

Bug fixes

• Fix Module not found error (#194)
• Gracefully terminate workers on SIGTERM (#198)

v1.0.0

Finally, after about half a year in beta here it is – threads.js v1.0 🚀🎉

It has not been easy, but it's been worth the effort. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the v1.0 release! There were and still are many different ways to contribute.

Changes since v0.12

Version 1.0 is a complete rewrite of the library with a new API and written in TypeScript. It is the result of all the lessons learned from working on and working with v0.x.

The most noticeable changes are:

• New functional Promise- & Observable-based API
• Transparent calls to worker code
• First-class TypeScript support
• First-class webpack support via threads-plugin

This also means that you can now write worker code pretty intuitively and use worker functions just by calling them like any other function.

Since the new API is Promise-based, error handling now finally feels trivial. You might notice there is no more UMD build. If you feel like this is an issue you can vote to add it again in #191.

Changes since v1.0.0-beta.9

• Fix Transfer() function signature (#190)
• Add maxQueuedJobs option to pool (#188)
• Consistenly using observable-fns now (#185)
• Small performance improvements (#189)
• Some code refactorings (#186)

Future

A couple of features are still in discussion – head over to Issues to check them out. Here is a brief summary.

• Allow passing callbacks to workers (#145)
• IE11 support (#171)
• Easy worker-to-worker communication (#169)
• Turn functions into workers (no extra worker file)
• Custom serializers/deserializers for data passed to/from workers

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Happy hacking!

v1.0.0-beta.9

This small path release fixes some TypeScript issues. Integration tests have been added to prevent future regressions.

Bug fixes

• Declaration files now work if the app's tsconfig compilerOptions.lib does not contain dom (#138)
• Declaration files now work if the app's tsconfig has compilerOptions.esModuleInterOp not set (#138)

v1.0.0-beta.8

Another tiny patch release.

Bug fixes

• Allows master threads on a file:// URL to create workers from relative path
• Prevent error when importing threads in a web worker and browser doesn't support creating workers in workers

v1.0.0-beta.7

Bug fixes

• Fix some types and type inference around promises & observables returned by threads (#175)