Okay! Once you've set up the listener event correctly, you will want to send some tasks to the worker for it to do. This is how to achieve that:
// script.jsconst awesomeworker = new Worker('myworker.js');awesomeworker.addEventListener('message', e => { console.log(e.data); // data sent by worker});const data = {task: "add", nums: [5, 10, 15, 20]};// lets send this dataawesomeworker.postMessage(data);
Alright. Here, we're giving a task to the worker to add two numbers. Note that we are able to pass objects/arrays to the postMessage method, which is actually used to post/deliver a message to the worker which is spawned.
Objects messaged through postMessage are copied and not referenced. This means that, ...
