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Concurrency in JavaScript | TypedArray.org

Web Workers are now broadly available in most browsers even on mobile (caniuse.com stats for Web Workers) and give you the power of concurrency from within JavaScript. It will allow you to move expensive computations to other threads, to permit best responsive programming, and ideally open the doors in the future to true parallelization in JavaScript. Let’s have a look at the reasons why you may be interested into leveraging Web Workers.