# Speed up your App with Web Workers

DevFeed: [Speed up your App with Web Workers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/speed-up-your-app-with-web-workers-51870.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kentcdodds.com/blog/speed-up-your-app-with-web-workers>)

Published: 2019-10-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kent C. Dodds Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kent-c-dodds-blog.md>)

Topics: [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>)

Tags: [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [devtools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devtools.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/process.md>), [single-threaded](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/single-threaded.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [thread](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thread.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explaining how JavaScript's single-threaded execution can block browser interactions and how Web Workers can move long-running computations to separate threads. It introduces Web Workers as a browser standard and demonstrates a practical use case.

## Source excerpt

How to get started using web workers for practical use cases