Support for (Web)Workers and standalone packs

[yuchi]

Inside (Web)Workers you have little access to the network, that means that an asynchronous loader would simply not work. Once we have #8 in place we could do something interesting, which is packing an entry and all its dependencies in a single pack, exactly what browserify and webpack do.

This would make it trivial to build a WebWorker main script with dependencies.

The final result would look like this:

{
  main: 0,
  entries: [
    {
      path: '/o/xxxx/1.2.3/index.js',
      body: function (require, module, global, __dirname, __filename, process) {
        var DOM = require('metal-dom');
        // ...
      },
      dependencies: {
        "metal-dom": 34
      }
    },
    // after 33 other modules
    {
      path: '/o/metal-dom/2.0.0/index.js',
      body: function () { ... },
      dependencies: { ... }
    }
  ]
}

[julien]

Hi @yuchi ,

When you say that

Inside (Web)Workers you have little access to the network

WebWorkers have access to XMLHttpRequest (in "modern" browsers), are we talking about other Workers?

Thanks

[yuchi]

@julien I was indeed wrong, you can do xhr on WebWorkers.

[julien]

No problem.