HTML Web Worker and Jquery Ajax call

Question

I\'m wondering if I can use jQuery inside the web worker file. Google Chrome gives me this error: \"Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined\".

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Answer 1

No you cannot. There's no access to non-thread safe components or the DOM and you have to pass specific data in and out of a thread through serialized objects. So you have to work really hard to cause problems in your code. jQuery is a JavaScript DOM library.

But you can use a native XMLHttpRequest in your worker however.

And, importing external scripts does not go via the page with a script tag : use importScripts() for that in your worker file.