From c374e79be33526374aca5ab7dee0f3c601618800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Michael McNutt <mcnutt.andrew@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:09:39 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] init

---
 src/lib/api-calls.ts                | 13 +++++++++++++
 src/lib/heavy-computation.worker.ts | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/lib/heavy-computation.worker.ts

diff --git a/src/lib/api-calls.ts b/src/lib/api-calls.ts
index be84f31b..aa0b7fe0 100644
--- a/src/lib/api-calls.ts
+++ b/src/lib/api-calls.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 import { Color } from "./Color";
 import type { Palette } from "../stores/color-store";
 
+// import using `?worker` suffix
+import ViteWorker from "./heavy-computation.worker?worker";
+
+// instantiate the worker
+const tsWorker = new ViteWorker();
+
+// send and receive messages from the worker
+tsWorker.postMessage({ type: "test", content: "hellow" });
+
+tsWorker.addEventListener("message", (msg: MessageEvent<string>) => {
+  console.log(msg.data); // how now, brown cow?
+});
+
 type Engine = "openai" | "google";
 type SimplePal = { background: string; colors: string[] };
 const palToString = (pal: Palette) => ({
diff --git a/src/lib/heavy-computation.worker.ts b/src/lib/heavy-computation.worker.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..21b61d8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/heavy-computation.worker.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+type Command = { type: "load-data"; content: "" };
+
+async function dispatch(cmd: Command) {
+  switch (cmd.type) {
+    case "load-data":
+      await loadData();
+      break;
+  }
+}
+
+self.onmessage = (event: MessageEvent<string>) => {
+  let response = "";
+  console.log("here", event.data);
+  self.postMessage(event.data);
+};
+
+export {}; // this is to make typescript happy