Do worker thread errors crash the main Node.js process?
No. An uncaught error in a worker crashes the worker thread but not the main thread. Listen for the 'error' event on the worker to catch and handle worker errors gracefully in the main thread.
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Import { Worker } from 'worker_threads', create a new Worker with a file path, communicate via postMessage and on('message'), handle errors with the 'error' event, and use SharedArrayBuffer for zero-copy large data sharing.
For heavy CPU computation: image processing, cryptographic computation, large data processing, machine learning inference. Anything that takes more than a few milliseconds of synchronous CPU time should be offloaded to keep the event loop free.
For I/O-bound work. Async APIs (fs.readFile, fetch, database queries) already keep the event loop free. Using worker threads for I/O adds overhead without benefit, since the I/O is delegated to libuv anyway.
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