How to use @chialab/esbuild-plugin-worker create web-workers?

[okikio]

Quick question, I'd like to use @chialab/esbuild-plugin-worker together with gulp-esbuild as a plugin for loading workers, but I am not clear on how I'm supposed to do that. the docs don't mention how you create workers.

[edoardocavazza]

Hello @okikio! I have updated the README file of the plugin with some information.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions or more examples, we are still setting up the ecosystem and things may be incomplete. Any feedback is appreciated.

[okikio]

Thanks for the quick response, but unfortunately I won't be able to use @chialab/esbuild-plugin-worker, as it lacks support for the { type: "module" } option, fortunately I was able to create a small custom solution for my use case.

In my case, the main reason why I need the { type: "module" } is to avoid redundant/repetitive code, I was hoping to have modules required for both the main thread and the worker be loaded once, as the project I am working on (an online bundler) is rather complex. I appreciate you taking the time, and I can't wait to see what this project turns into.

If you want to learn more about my project I suggest check out the repo github.com/okikio/bundle or the site itself bundle.js.org

[edoardocavazza]

I see. Supporting { type: "module" } is quite easy, but at the moment there is not a way to emit chunks in esbuild, so the worker build cannot share code with the main build. We are looking forward for evanw/esbuild#795 and evanw/esbuild#312.

If you want to learn more about my project I suggest check out the repo github.com/okikio/bundle or the site itself bundle.js.org

Sure I will!

[okikio]

Ok, thanks

[okikio]

It's been a while, does @chialab/esbuild-plugin-worker now support module web-workers?

[edoardocavazza]

Hi @okikio. Some time ago I added a check for type: 'module' in Worker initialization. It should work, but I have to admit I had not test it so much. Would you like to do some testing?

[okikio]

I'll see if I can do some testing

[okikio]

Btw I have finished the dev of github.com/okikio/bundle you can check out the final version at bundle.js.org

[edoardocavazza]

Hello @okikio , any update on this? Can we close the issue?

[okikio]

Yeah, thanks so much for your help