| # synckit |
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| Perform async work synchronously in Node.js using `worker_threads` with first-class TypeScript and Yarn P'n'P support. |
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| ## TOC <!-- omit in toc --> |
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| - [Usage](#usage) |
| - [Install](#install) |
| - [API](#api) |
| - [Types](#types) |
| - [Options](#options) |
| - [Envs](#envs) |
| - [TypeScript](#typescript) |
| - [`ts-node`](#ts-node) |
| - [`esbuild-register`](#esbuild-register) |
| - [`esbuild-runner`](#esbuild-runner) |
| - [`swc`](#swc) |
| - [`tsx`](#tsx) |
| - [Benchmark](#benchmark) |
| - [Sponsors](#sponsors) |
| - [Backers](#backers) |
| - [Changelog](#changelog) |
| - [License](#license) |
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| ## Usage |
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| ### Install |
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| ```sh |
| # yarn |
| yarn add synckit |
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| # npm |
| npm i synckit |
| ``` |
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| ### API |
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| ```js |
| // runner.js |
| import { createSyncFn } from 'synckit' |
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| // the worker path must be absolute |
| const syncFn = createSyncFn(require.resolve('./worker'), { |
| tsRunner: 'tsx', // optional, can be `'ts-node' | 'esbuild-register' | 'esbuild-runner' | 'tsx'` |
| }) |
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| // do whatever you want, you will get the result synchronously! |
| const result = syncFn(...args) |
| ``` |
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| ```js |
| // worker.js |
| import { runAsWorker } from 'synckit' |
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| runAsWorker(async (...args) => { |
| // do expensive work |
| return result |
| }) |
| ``` |
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| You must make sure, the `result` is serializable by [`Structured Clone Algorithm`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Structured_clone_algorithm) |
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| ### Types |
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| ````ts |
| export interface GlobalShim { |
| moduleName: string |
| /** |
| * `undefined` means side effect only |
| */ |
| globalName?: string |
| /** |
| * 1. `undefined` or empty string means `default`, for example: |
| * ```js |
| * import globalName from 'module-name' |
| * ``` |
| * |
| * 2. `null` means namespaced, for example: |
| * ```js |
| * import * as globalName from 'module-name' |
| * ``` |
| * |
| */ |
| named?: string | null |
| /** |
| * If not `false`, the shim will only be applied when the original `globalName` unavailable, |
| * for example you may only want polyfill `globalThis.fetch` when it's unavailable natively: |
| * ```js |
| * import fetch from 'node-fetch' |
| * |
| * if (!globalThis.fetch) { |
| * globalThis.fetch = fetch |
| * } |
| * ``` |
| */ |
| conditional?: boolean |
| } |
| ```` |
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| ### Options |
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| 1. `execArgv` same as env `SYNCKIT_EXEC_ARGV` |
| 2. `globalShims`: Similar like env `SYNCKIT_GLOBAL_SHIMS` but much more flexible which can be a `GlobalShim` `Array`, see `GlobalShim`'s [definition](#types) for more details |
| 3. `timeout` same as env `SYNCKIT_TIMEOUT` |
| 4. `transferList`: Please refer Node.js [`worker_threads`](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html#:~:text=Default%3A%20true.-,transferList,-%3CObject%5B%5D%3E%20If) documentation |
| 5. `tsRunner` same as env `SYNCKIT_TS_RUNNER` |
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| ### Envs |
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| 1. `SYNCKIT_EXEC_ARGV`: List of node CLI options passed to the worker, split with comma `,`. (default as `[]`), see also [`node` docs](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html) |
| 2. `SYNCKIT_GLOBAL_SHIMS`: Whether to enable the default `DEFAULT_GLOBAL_SHIMS_PRESET` as `globalShims` |
| 3. `SYNCKIT_TIMEOUT`: `timeout` for performing the async job (no default) |
| 4. `SYNCKIT_TS_RUNNER`: Which TypeScript runner to be used, it could be very useful for development, could be `'ts-node' | 'esbuild-register' | 'esbuild-runner' | 'swc' | 'tsx'`, `'ts-node'` is used by default, make sure you have installed them already |
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| ### TypeScript |
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| #### `ts-node` |
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| If you want to use `ts-node` for worker file (a `.ts` file), it is supported out of box! |
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| If you want to use a custom tsconfig as project instead of default `tsconfig.json`, use `TS_NODE_PROJECT` env. Please view [ts-node](https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node#tsconfig) for more details. |
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| If you want to integrate with [tsconfig-paths](https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsconfig-paths), please view [ts-node](https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-node#paths-and-baseurl) for more details. |
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| #### `esbuild-register` |
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| Please view [`esbuild-register`][] for its document |
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| #### `esbuild-runner` |
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| Please view [`esbuild-runner`][] for its document |
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| #### `swc` |
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| Please view [`@swc-node/register`][] for its document |
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| #### `tsx` |
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| Please view [`tsx`][] for its document |
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| ## Benchmark |
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| It is about 50x faster than [`sync-threads`](https://github.com/lambci/sync-threads) but 10x slower than native for reading the file content itself 1000 times during runtime, and 40x faster than `sync-threads` but 10x slower than native for total time on my personal MacBook Pro with 64G M1 Max. |
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| And it's almost 5x faster than [`deasync`](https://github.com/abbr/deasync) but requires no native bindings or `node-gyp`. |
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| See [benchmark.cjs](./benchmarks/benchmark.cjs.txt) and [benchmark.esm](./benchmarks/benchmark.esm.txt) for more details. |
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| You can try it with running `yarn benchmark` by yourself. [Here](./benchmarks/benchmark.js) is the benchmark source code. |
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| ## Sponsors |
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| | 1stG | RxTS | UnTS | |
| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| | [](https://opencollective.com/1stG) | [](https://opencollective.com/rxts) | [](https://opencollective.com/unts) | |
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| ## Backers |
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| [](https://github.com/sponsors/JounQin) |
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| | 1stG | RxTS | UnTS | |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| | [](https://opencollective.com/1stG) | [](https://opencollective.com/rxts) | [](https://opencollective.com/unts) | |
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| ## Changelog |
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| Detailed changes for each release are documented in [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md). |
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| ## License |
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| [MIT][] © [JounQin][]@[1stG.me][] |
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| [`esbuild-register`]: https://github.com/egoist/esbuild-register |
| [`esbuild-runner`]: https://github.com/folke/esbuild-runner |
| [`@swc-node/register`]: https://github.com/swc-project/swc-node/tree/master/packages/register |
| [`tsx`]: https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx |
| [1stg.me]: https://www.1stg.me |
| [jounqin]: https://GitHub.com/JounQin |
| [mit]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT |