Use web3 npm package for web workers

[AkaashMukherjee]

Is there an existing issue for this?

#2211

Feature Request

I'm currently trying to run a web worker to check objects in smart contracts using the web3 npm package. The web3 library references the window object on import and thus errors out since the window object does not exist in the context of the web worker. All libraries not using the window object seem to be importing fine into he web worker.

Use Cases

When we want to simultaneously run a dapp and also check changes in global state variables without creating blockchain events.

Implementation Ideas

No response

Feature Examples/References

No response

Are you willing to implement this feature?

• Yes

[KorbisInc]

I'm trying to offload the wallet creation to a webworker but I'm hitting the same issue.

[github-actions]

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[mconnelly8]

Hey @AkaashMukherjee , thank you for your submission. Can you send us a code snippet to review?

[mconnelly8]

@AkaashMukherjee, we are going to keep this as a feature request for v4, but will not be implementing in v1.