Message Channel API Article

[kongaraju]

I would like to contribute to this repository with an article on Message Channel API.

[ebidel]

Please propose an outline

[kongaraju]

Javascript Thead Communication

Message Channel API is a part of Web Messaging specification . Message Channel allows to communicate two independent scripts like workers. It helps to transfer messages to the other end without any media, both the threads can communicate directly via ports. Array of ports can be sent using ports property of event.

Ports send messages using postMessage and receive messages using onmessage . start enables the message port and close will terminates. It can be stored locally and used repeatedly as you needed.

Message Channel API helps to build heavy applications using javascript and is very useful to increase speed of javascript engines.

Table of contents

• Introducing thread communication : Javascript
• Message Channel API
• Getting Started
• Communication and Message Passing
• Transferable objects
• Scope
• Use Cases
• Demos

@ebidel

[PaulKinlan]

I do like the idea of this article, specifically how and when it should be used (which I think should be at the top of the article). I am also very interested in how this works on mobile (ios, android and safari) and what developers should do if there is no support for the api (i.e, windows phone)