How to use Sharedworker?

[shamhub]

Below code uses dedicated worker, in the worker code.

const ctx: Worker = self as any;
ctx.addEventListener('message', (e) => {
    // console.log(e)
    if (e.data === 'do some work') {
        console.log('Worker is about to start some work');
        let count: number = 0;
        for (let i: number = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
            count += i;
        }
        ctx.postMessage({ message: count });
    }
})

where the calling code is:

let worker: Worker = new Worker('worker.js');
worker.postMessage('do some work');

and tsconfig.json is:

{
   
    "compilerOptions": {
   
      "lib": ["es2015", "dom"]
    },
    "files": [
      "./1_webworker/tstut.ts",
      "./1_webworker/worker.ts"

    ]
  }

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Trying to execute the same code using let worker: SharedWorker = new SharedWorker('worker.js'); but got the error Cannot find name 'SharedWorker'

here is the folder structure

How to use SharedWorker in place of dedicated worker?

[RyanCavanaugh]

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[mhegazy]

SharedWorker is currently not defined in lib.d.ts, meanwhile you can use @types/sharedworker.

Logged #24323 to track adding it.