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Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a …

You gotta appreciate the tenacity of Surma. He’s been advocating for Web Workers as a path forward to better-feeling websites for a lot of years now. He’s at it again making sure we all understand the landscape:

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JavaScript is what they call “single-threaded.” As Brian Barbour puts it:

This means it has one call stack and one memory heap.

We all feel a symptom of that regularly in the form of performance jank and non-interactivity on …