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Parsing 100MB+ JSON Payloads with Web Workers

Developer guide on offloading heavy JSON parsing and streaming tokenization to dedicated background Web Workers to maintain 60FPS UI performance.

Parsing massive JSON files directly on the main thread causes UI freezing, dropped frames, and poor Core Web Vitals (Interaction to Next Paint - INP).

1. Web Worker Thread Offloading

By delegating JSON.parse() and AST serialization to a dedicated background Worker, the main-thread event loop remains completely responsive.

// worker-formatter.js
self.onmessage = function (e) {
  try {
    const parsed = JSON.parse(e.data);
    const formatted = JSON.stringify(parsed, null, 2);
    self.postMessage({ status: 'success', result: formatted });
  } catch (err) {
    self.postMessage({ status: 'error', message: err.message });
  }
};

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