GoogleChromeLabs/clooney

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1420 stars · 36 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Clooney is an actor library for the web that instantiates classes inside Web Workers so expensive work runs off the main thread. It uses Comlink under the hood so worker instances can be called as if they were local objects.

Use cases

• run expensive calculations off the main thread
• use web workers without writing worker boilerplate
• spawn classes in workers like local objects
• keep the UI responsive during heavy computation
• call async worker methods transparently
• distribute work across multiple workers with round-robin

When to choose

• you want a simple actor-style API over Web Workers
• your class is self-contained and doesn't rely on outer scope
• you're already comfortable with Comlink's proxy approach
• you need multi-worker strategies like round-robin

When to avoid

• your class depends heavily on surrounding scope or DOM access
• you need ES module workers or modern worker features
• you need fine-grained control over worker messaging
• the project appears minimally maintained for newer platform features

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency rpc developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools browser web-workers actor-model comlink off-main-thread browser-library javascript web-server

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