@ct0r/worker-queue v0.1.1

ct0r/worker-queue

Worker thread queue for Node.js.

Installation

npm install @ct0r/worker-queue

Usage

// index.js
const queue = require("@ct0r/worker-queue");

const enqueue = queue({ parallelism: 2 });

Promise.all([
  enqueue("./parse-xml-worker.js", xml1),
  enqueue("./parse-xml-worker.js", xml2),
]);

// parse-xml-worker.js
const { work } = require("@ct0r/worker-queue");

work((xml) => {
  // ...
});

or

const enqueue = queue({
  filename: "./parse-xml-worker.js",
  parallelism: 2,
});

await Promise.all([enqueue(xml1), enqueue(xml2)]);

// or

await Promise.all([xml1, xml].map(enqueue));

API

queue({ filename, parallelism = 1 })

Sets level of parallelism and returns enqueue function.

enqueue(...args)

Returned by queue if filename is provided.

enqueue(filename, ...args)

Returned by queue if filename is not provided.

work(fn)

Invokes given function inside of worker and delegates errors back to queue.