The Web Workers API allows to run large scripts in the background without interrupting our main page or web app. It was impossible to run multiple JavaScript scripts concurrently prior to Web Workers.
Web Workers create a special environment for JavaScript code to run in that occurs in a separate thread from the main UI of your page. This means that your page’s UI won’t be locked up if you have particularly long-running JavaScript code.
This allows us to take scripts that take a long time to run, and require no user interaction, and run them behind the scenes concurrently with any other scripts that do handle user interaction and Web Workers brings us thread-like features. Each "worker" handles its own chunk of script, without interfering with other workers or the rest of the page. To ensure the workers stay in sync with each other, the API defines ways to pass messages from one worker to another.
