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Created a library to handle CPU-intensive tasks in React apps without UI blocking

Built something called **WorkerFlow** over the past few months to deal with heavy processing tasks in React without making the interface unresponsive.

**Background:**

Was developing an application that did a lot of data crunching on the frontend and the whole UI would lock up constantly. Manually setting up Web Workers was a nightmare - creating separate files, dealing with all the message passing code, handling state management... way too much overhead for what should be straightforward.

**How it works:**

// Define your heavy operation once

flow.define('crunchNumbers', (dataset) => {

// Executes in Web Worker thread

return intensiveCalculation(dataset);

});

// Use with standard React patterns

const { result, isLoading, error, execute } = useWorker('crunchNumbers');

**Key features:**

- Built-in React hooks for loading/error handling

- Smart worker pool management based on CPU cores

- WASM integration for performance boosts

- Full TypeScript definitions

- Around 2.8KB compressed

**What I need:**

- Brutal feedback - does this solve a real problem or just creating more complexity

- Anyone willing to test it and report issues

- Suggestions for additional functionality

- Open to collaborators if this interests you

**Repository and demos:**

- Source: [WorkerFlow GitHub](https://github.com/tapava/compute-kit)

- Working example: [Live Demo](https://computekit-demo.vercel.app/)

- Packages: [WorkerFlow/Core](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@computekit/core) | [WorkerFlow/React](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@computekit/react)

First time putting together an open source project so any input is valuable - even if its just telling me this is redundant or completely wrong approach.

submitted by /u/Many_Willow_5176 to r/reactjs
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