pshihn/workly

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1875 stars · 34 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Workly is a tiny (~1kB) JavaScript library that lets you move a stand-alone function or class to a web worker with a single proxy call, or expose objects in a worker to the main thread. All calls become asynchronous and work naturally with async/await.

Use cases

• run a CPU-heavy function in a web worker so the UI doesn't block
• offload busy computation from the main thread with minimal code
• proxy a class so its instances live in a worker thread
• expose a function in a custom worker file to the main thread
• make worker calls feel like normal async function calls

When to choose

• you want the simplest possible way to offload a function or class to a web worker
• you need a tiny dependency (~1kB gzipped) for browser threading
• your functions are self-contained and don't rely on closure scope or the DOM

When to avoid

• your functions depend on containing scope, DOM, or shared mutable objects
• you need fine-grained worker pool management or transferable/SharedArrayBuffer performance
• you're targeting non-browser environments without web worker support

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency developer-tools web-development frontend developer-tools browser web-worker proxy async threading tiny-library javascript web-server

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