Workers in the browser

[valentinoli]

Currently, this module only supports workers in Node.js
Would it be difficult to add support for unzipping in parallel with Web Workers in the browser?

[greggman]

it works just fine in web workers. See example in the repo.

[valentinoli]

I tried but it relies on a Node module worker_threads

[valentinoli]

Moreover, the example is titled "Workers in Node"

[greggman]

https://github.com/greggman/unzipit#with-workers

[valentinoli]

Ah, I was getting a webpack error:

This dependency was not found:      
* worker_threads in ./node_modules/unzipit/dist/unzipit-worker.module.js       
To install it, you can run: npm install --save worker_threads

Solved it by using the webpack file-loader

{
  test: /unzipit-worker.module.js$/,
  use: [
    {
      loader: 'file-loader',
      options: {
        name: '[path][name].[contenthash:7].[ext]'
      }
    }
  ]
}

import workerURL from 'unzipit/dist/unzipit-worker.module.js'

setOptions({
  workerURL,
  numWorkers: 2
})

Thanks!