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Do we have to generate Angular Web Workers in a separate file?

The Angular documentation says to do this:

ng generate web-worker location

And that works great. Just curious whether we have to generate the worker in a separate file or can we just create one a service:

const worker = new Worker()
worker.addEventListener('message', ({ data }) => {
  const response = `worker response to ${data}`;
  postMessage(response);
});

Thoughts?

Solution

  • It's not due to angular, it is due to Worker itself: yes, you are forced to use a separate file.

    Hope this helps.