Event binding about pokedex.org

[nolanlawson]

Yes, I have been thinking about it a bit. I have a small module that I was planning on incorporating eventually: https://github.com/nolanlawson/promise-worker

However, it may be inappropriate because actually the sender of the WW message and the receiver are not necessarily the same component. In general I actually really like the event handler model (simple, vanilla, less code, more obvious); is there another approach you think would be better?

[FrigoEU]

I'm looking at this more from 'the other side' : I'd like the code in the web worker to register event handlers. I think having your render functions also register the event handlers is, for me at least, much more natural.

As for how this would work: serializing functions is impossible, but I was thinking about another step in the vdom process that would walk the vtree and replace every function with a unique string or number, plus add this to a map from unique id -> function. Then on the UI thread side there'd be just a simple event handler that sends the number back to the web worker. The web worker can then consult the map and find which function to execute.

This is just a conceptual overview, there are some annoying things to take care of in an actual implementation, but I do think this could work.

[nolanlawson]

Then on the UI thread side there'd be just a simple event handler that sends the number back to the web worker.

That's pretty much what promise-worker does. :)

[FrigoEU]

That's pretty much what promise-worker does. :)

Oooh yeah, I hadn't looked into the implementation of promise-worker but it's definitely a similar line of thought! I don't think promise-worker itself could help with this "issue" though.