rvagg/node-worker-farm

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1737 stars · 120 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Node.js library that distributes processing tasks across multiple child processes with a simple API. It provides call durability, automatically re-queuing tasks if a child process dies, plus configurable concurrency options.

Use cases

• run CPU-heavy tasks in parallel across child processes
• offload work from the main Node event loop
• isolate crash-prone native code like JVM calls from the main process
• retry tasks automatically when a worker process dies
• limit concurrent worker processes with custom concurrency settings

When to choose

• you need durable, retry-safe task execution in Node.js child processes
• you want a minimal API without a heavy job-queue framework
• you must isolate unstable native or JVM workloads from your main process

When to avoid

• you need a distributed job queue across machines
• your workload is I/O-bound and async handles it fine
• you want modern worker_threads instead of child processes

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency workflow-automation developer-tools backend microservices cross-platform worker-processes child-process task-distribution cpu-bound nodejs

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