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7/22/2026
The original title is "Advanced JS Execution: Promises, Workers, and Comlink"

The original title is "Advanced JS Execution: Promises, Workers, and Comlink"

Original: Advanced JS Execution: Promises, Workers, and Comlink

Short summary

A practical tutorial explaining why async/await doesn't prevent UI freezes during CPU-heavy work and how Web Workers solve the problem. It walks through six progressive examples from a frozen main-thread loop to Comlink-based workers, SharedArrayBuffer shared memory, and worker pools using Piscina on Node. Each example is a cloneable GitHub project with runnable code.

  • Promises handle waiting (I/O), not computing — heavy loops on the main thread still freeze the UI
  • Web Workers move CPU work to a separate thread; Comlink makes calling workers ergonomic with async/await
  • Progressive examples cover raw workers, shared memory, and worker pools for scaling

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