worker-inlinify

worker-inlinify transforms separate web worker script reference into inline script using syntax: new Worker(window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(["/* Web Worker code here */"]))).

Installation

You can install it globally to use the CLI everywhere.

npm install worker-inlinify -g

Or just install within your project.

npm install worker-inlinify --save

Command line interface

worker-inlinify is available as a global command if you installed it globally. It will read all *.js files from the current working directory and inlinify any external web worker references like new Worker("worker.js") if the external web worker script can be found.

For example, you have following files in the home directory.

1. home/main.js

   var worker = new Worker('src/worker.js');
   var fakeWorker = new Worker('non-existing-worker.js');
   eval('new Worker("src/worker.js")');

2. home/src/worker.js

   (function(){
       console.log('Hi from worker.js');
   })();

After running worker_inlinify command in home directory, the main.js will be overwritten to:

var worker = new Worker(window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(["(function(){\r\n    console.log(\'Hi from worker.js\');\r\n})();"])));
var fakeWorker = new Worker('non-existing-worker.js');
eval('new Worker(window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([\"(function(){\\r\\n    console.log(\\\'Hi from worker.js\\\');\\r\\n})();\"])))');

If you don't want to install it globally, worker-inlinify is also available from npm scripts, you can define it in a custom script like below in your package.json.

{
  "scripts": {
    "inlinify": "worker-inlinify"
  }
}

And npm run inlinify will do the same trick.

--loose

If you have the following code snippet, you would get an error: SyntaxError: Identifier 'a' has already been declared (3:4) when running worker-inlinify. This is because worker-inlinify uses Acorn as the JavaScript parser to parse your JS code and Acorn will raise a SyntaxError object when encountering a syntax error.

var worker = new Worker('src/worker.js');
let a = 'a';
let a = 'a';

You can use worker-inlinify --loose to overcome this, but it is not recommended.

workerInlinify.inlinify(source)

Description: Inlinify the given source code.

Arguments

Parameter	Type	Description
source	String	The source string to be inlinified.

Return value

The inlinified script.

workerInlinify.inlinifyFile(file)

Description: Inlinify the given JS file, the file must have a "js" extension name.

Arguments

Parameter	Type	Description
file	String	The JS file path to be inlinified

Return value

No return value, the JS file will be overwritten with the inlinified result.

workerInlinify.contextPath

Description: The path where workerInlinify finds the external web worker scripts.

Type: String

Defautl value: process.cwd()

The default contextPath is the current node working directory. You can set to a custom path where workerInlinify can find the external web worker scripts.

workerInlinify.useLoose

Description: Whether to use an error-tolerant parser.

Type: Boolean

Default value: false

The default value is false. If you encounter a SyntaxError when inlinifying the script, you may either fix the Syntax error in your script or set this value to true to solve it.