JavaScript will support modules in shared workers. Setting 'module' type by the constructor's type attribute, worker scripts are loaded as ES modules and the import statement is available on worker contexts.
Motivation
With this feature, web developers can more easily write programs in a composable way and share them among a page and workers.
Documentation
Specification
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:
- Chrome for desktop release 83
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
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Intent to Prototype threadLast updated on 2020-11-14