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Comlink makes WebWorkers enjoyable.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2017-10-11 · latest 2025-12-06

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    A 2kb library that makes WebWorkers enjoyable
    story by keepamovin · 2025-12-06 · 0 comments
  2. Another trick — use comlink ( https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink ) to make the worker thread into essentially an async API of your local methods.
    comment by aabhay · 2024-11-22 · in A binary tree of all Pythagorean triples
  3. I understand, but things like https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink enable it. Similar to how iFrames don't have access to their parent page you need a facilitator. My question is why not use a js facilitator that could work in all…
    comment by xori · 2024-07-10 · in Show HN: Parallel DOM – Upgrade your DOM to be multithreaded
  4. …of Comlink[0], the Google Chrome team's library for orchestrating and messaging web workers. [0]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by tentacleuno · 2024-04-06 · in JavaScript native RPC added to Cloudflare workers
  5. Feels like taking a general Comlink-like system & making it more component oriented. Good ideas. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-07-27 · in RemoteUI
  6. …perhaps using ComLink [2]. [1] https://deno.land/manual@v1.25.0/runtime/workers#specifying-... [2] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by laurencerowe · 2022-08-26 · in Deno 1.25
  7. …this blog post on using Redux across threads[3]. [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/comlink [2] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink#transfer-handler... [3] https://dassur.ma/things/react-redux-comlink/
    comment by rektide · 2022-01-20 · in Easy State Sync Across JavaScript Sandboxes (Frames, Workers, Threads, Webviews)
  8. …been some attempts to make it easier to use threads on the web like the excellent Comlink library: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by esprehn · 2021-09-28 · in High-performance garbage collection for C++ V8 (2020)
  9. Also supports Node.js, service workers and iFrame communication. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by leodriesch · 2021-05-23 · in Web worker meets worker threads – threads.js
  10. Other than the built-in thread pool task scheduler, how does this differ from Comlink [1]? 1. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by Sephr · 2021-05-23 · in Web worker meets worker threads – threads.js
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    Comlink – RPC Library for WebWorkers
    story by simonpure · 2021-01-27 · 0 comments
  12. …https://github.com/domenic/proposal-blocks [2]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/clooney [3]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by dassurma · 2019-06-15 · in When to use web workers
  13. …be reaped by the worklet approach. [1]: https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-tasklets/2199 [2]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
    comment by dassurma · 2017-10-20 · in Tasklets: a more ergonomic solution to WebWorkers
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    Comlink: An RPC library for the web
    story by guifortaine · 2017-10-11 · 0 comments