Can I use Worker class in React Native?

Question

Can I do something like

let worker = new Worker("./module.js", {type: "module"});

within the context of react-native ? Does it run the module in background thread? If so, who is handling the thread marshaling? I am thinking this is not possible in the context of react-native since Worker relies on HTML5. Confirmation?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure you need a 3rd party library for this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-workers

Once you've got it installed just override Worker :

import { Worker } from 'react-native-workers';