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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Multithreading in Javascript: A guide to Web Workers

Dani Coll

Is JavaScript actually single-threaded? Discover how Web Workers unlock true parallelism to offload heavy CPU tasks and guarantee smooth 60 FPS interfaces.

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