A web worker can be used to help speed up your website. It's a type of service work that lets you do things on the main thread and then off load them into an express lane. You could use it for analytics, intercom chat or any other kind of data-heavy tasks. The most important thing is not running anything very resource intensive on the mainthread.
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through the fundamentals of web workers and service workers - examples, when you should use them, how to debug, local dev, and more.
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