For example, a user inputs 10, and 10 worker threads are created that run a function. I cannot figure out how to do this, i've looked at the docs and i'm blanking.
Okay so, first, you'll have to get user input (stdin), parse it and store it into a variable.
Then, you'll launch N workers with a for loop.
const readline = require('readline');
const Worker = require('worker_threads')
const rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: process.stdout,
terminal: false
});
process.stdout.write('How many threads to start ? ')
rl.on('line', (line) => {
// Here, line is the user input
if(!isNaN(line)) {
const n = Number(line)
for(let i = 0;i < n;i++) {
new Worker("filename")
}
}
else throw Error('Input is not a valid number !')
})
You can document yourself on Worker threads here : https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
And on Readline here : https://nodejs.org/api/readline.html