NodeJs how to create a non-blocking computation

Question

I am trying to get my head around creating a non-blocking piece of heavy computation in nodejs. Take this example (stripped out of other stuff):

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Answer 1

If you computation can be split into chunks, you could schedule executor to poll for data every N seconds then after M seconds run again. Or spawn dedicated child for that task alone, so that the main thread wouldn't block.