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Typed parallel functional programming in Web frontends—a systematic literature review

Year: 2026

Type: review

Abstract: Web frontends are ubiquitous, from Web pages and single-page applications to hybrid mobile apps, Web frontends play a crucial role in today’s digital economy. At their core, they rely on JavaScript, whose single-threaded nature poses significant challenges to delivering smooth and responsive user experiences as complexity rises. In–browser parallelism promises responsiveness and throughput improvements, but spans several mechanisms ( Web Workers , Worklets , OffscreenCanvas , WebAssembly threads ) with diverse coordination models. We conducted a systematic review of primary studies on using Web Workers for parallel JavaScript in browsers, extracting design and scope choices, to collate the resources necessary for a generic ES5-compatible parallel enumeration system capable of type introspection. Such a system would enable widespread in-browser parallelization without any external plug-ins or experimental JavaScript specifications, and spare developers from managing work-splitting and result-merging.

Source: PeerJ Computer Science

DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.3824

Authors: C. Miguel Ferreira, Henrique S. Mamede, Sérgio Guerreiro

Institutions: Universidade Aberta, INESC TEC, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento

Language: English

Topic: Mobile and Web Applications

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,395

OpenAlex ID: W7162775980

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