Parallelizing tasks in Node.js

Question

I have some tasks I want to do in JS that are resource intensive. For this question, lets assume they are some heavy calculations, rather then system access. Now I want to r

Answer 1

Depending on your use case you can use something like

task.js Simplified interface for getting CPU intensive code to run on all cores (node.js, and web)

A example would be

function blocking (exampleArgument) {
    // block thread
}

// turn blocking pure function into a worker task
const blockingAsync = task.wrap(blocking);

// run task on a autoscaling worker pool
blockingAsync('exampleArgumentValue').then(result => {
    // do something with result
});