As modern web applications become more complex, performance bottlenecks in the main thread can severely impact user experience. One powerful, underutilized tool to mitigate this is the Web Worker API. Web Workers allow you to offload expensive JavaScript operations to a background thread, keeping the UI thread free for user interactions. Let's break it down:

As modern web applications become more complex, performance bottlenecks in the main thread can severely impact user experience. One powerful, underutilized tool to mitigate this is the Web Worker API.
Web Workers allow you to offload expensive JavaScript operations to a background thread, keeping the UI thread free for user interactions. Let's break it down: