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Asked: 2026-05-31T10:14:19+00:00

I’ve been reading about web workers in HTML5, but I know JavaScript is single-threaded.

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I’ve been reading about web workers in HTML5, but I know JavaScript is single-threaded.

How are web workers doing multi-threaded work then? or how are they simulating it if it’s not truly multi-threaded?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As several comments have already pointed out, Workers really are multi-threaded.

    Some points which may help clarify your thinking:

    • JavaScript is a language, it doesn’t define a threading model, it’s not necessarily single threaded
    • Most browsers have historically been single threaded (though that is changing rapidly: IE, Chrome, Firefox), and most JavaScript implementations occur in browsers
    • Web Workers are not part of JavaScript, they are a browser feature which can be accessed through JavaScript
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