Does the electron framework allow multi-threading through web workers?

Question

I am having a hard time googling how I would do multi-threading if I made an electron app. Would it be with web workers?

Answer 1

In the renderer process you can create Web Workers, and those will run in their own threads, however Node integration will be disabled in those Web Workers because Node isn't thread-safe. So if you want to run something in a separate thread that uses Node then you'll need to spawn a separate process, you can do so with child_process.fork() and then communicate with the new process using send().