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# Background processing using web workers
[Web workers](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API) lets you run CPU-intensive computations in a background thread, freeing the main thread to update the user interface.
If you find your application performs a lot of computations, such as generating CAD drawings or doing heavy geometrical calculations, using web workers can help increase your application's performance.
<div class="alert is-helpful">
The CLI does not support running Angular itself in a web worker.
</div>
## Adding a web worker
To add a web worker to an existing project, use the Angular CLI `ng generate` command.
<code-example format="shell" language="shell">
ng generate web-worker &lt;location&gt;
</code-example>
You can add a web worker anywhere in your application.
For example, to add a web worker to the root component, `src/app/app.component.ts`, run the following command.
<code-example format="shell" language="shell">
ng generate web-worker app
</code-example>
The command performs the following actions.
1. Configures your project to use web workers, if it isn't already.
1. Adds the following scaffold code to `src/app/app.worker.ts` to receive messages.
<code-example language="typescript" header="src/app/app.worker.ts">
addEventListener('message', ({ data }) =&gt; {
const response = `worker response to &dollar;{data}`;
postMessage(response);
});
</code-example>
1. Adds the following scaffold code to `src/app/app.component.ts` to use the worker.
<code-example language="typescript" header="src/app/app.component.ts">
if (typeof Worker !== 'undefined') {
// Create a new
const worker = new Worker(new URL('./app.worker', import.meta.url));
worker.onmessage = ({ data }) =&gt; {
console.log(`page got message: &dollar;{data}`);
};
worker.postMessage('hello');
} else {
// Web workers are not supported in this environment.
// You should add a fallback so that your program still executes correctly.
}
</code-example>
After you generate this initial scaffold, you must refactor your code to use the web worker by sending messages to and from the worker.
<div class="alert is-important">
Some environments or platforms, such as `@angular/platform-server` used in [Server-side Rendering](guide/universal), don't support web workers.
To ensure that your application will work in these environments, you must provide a fallback mechanism to perform the computations that the worker would otherwise perform.
</div>
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@reviewed 2022-02-28