Multithreaded JavaScript: Concurrency Beyond the Event Loop

by Bryan English, II Thomas Hunter, Thomas Hunter II

Traditionally, JavaScript has been a single-threaded language. Nearly all online forum posts, books, online documentation, and libraries refer to the language as single threaded. Thanks to recent advancements in the language--such as the Atomics and SharedArrayBuffers objects and Web Workers in the browser--JavaScript is now a multi-threaded language. These features will go down as being the biggest paradigm shift for the world's most popular programming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1098104439
• ISBN13: 9781098104436
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.1"