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cwillu 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

That's what a background worker is: a local server managed by the browser and only accessible to pages of the origin domain.

galaxyLogic 37 days ago [–]

I'm thinking using a local http-server instead of web-workers . The local http server would do all the server-logic except also passing data that needs to be shared to a non-local server.

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