# audreyt/node-webworker-threads

Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads

Repository: https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-webworker-threads
Homepage: https://npmjs.org/package/webworker-threads
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-09-14T14:09:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5052, "days_push": 1814, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2278, forks 145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.675247+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js native addon (C++) implementing the Web Worker API with real threads, letting CPU-bound tasks run in parallel across cores within a single Node process. It is based on Threads A GoGo and requires node-gyp to build.

## Use cases
- run cpu-bound fibonacci computations without blocking the node event loop
- use the web worker api in node.js
- parallelize javascript tasks across all cpu cores in one process
- offload long-running javascript work to background threads

## When to choose
- you need thread-based (not process-based) parallelism with the Web Worker API in Node.js
- your workload is pure JavaScript CPU-bound computation

## When to avoid
- you need to require native modules inside workers (use tiny-worker instead)
- you are on modern Node.js with native worker_threads support
- the project is unmaintained and targets Node 0.10-era APIs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: concurrency, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, backend, performance
- platform: cpp
- tags: web-worker-api, native-threads, cpu-bound-tasks, node-addon, nodejs

## Member repositories
- audreyt/node-webworker-threads (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.675247+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:24.510942+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/audreyt/node-webworker-threads (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.675247+00:00, sha 3a4577f6aecb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.