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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Yeah, as I said it's simply an example.
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
And if there is I'd love to know it
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
I don't think there's an argument against "multiple threads are a pain to deal with"
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
I'm just talking in general, the JavaScript is just an example
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
It's no coincidence JavaScript runs an event loop and is single threaded
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
In any case, threads are a pain. My advice is to avoid them like the plague when possible
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
And it can't do that unless the back end provides some endpoint to do so
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
There's no way the front end would know the progress unless it can query it in some way
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
The folder is on the backend, its something like a file server
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Yeah, another example might be something like an asynchronous operation with progress updates in your back end. I had such a case recently. An HTTP request to request a folder copy from one location to another. What you might do is start a thread to perform the copy and return an address to query the progress of the copy.
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Just pick some full stack project you find interesting and make it. That's the best way to actually learn something
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Or whatever other language that can transpile to JavaScript
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
If you want it to be in the browser its probably gonna have to be JavaScript or typescript
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
You can write the front end in whatever
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
I suppose you can try to make an http server that provides some service
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
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Well I suppose for full stack you should probably learn the front end
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
I'd suggest you simply learn to get a sense for when its necessary to use multiple threads
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
It adds a pretty big layer of complexity to your project
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Honestly unless you really need it there's hardly a reason to use it
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•Created by Deorteur7 on 3/8/2025 in #java-help
Guidance for multithreading
Or if, for example, you are dealing with some GUI framework where you need to run some job without blocking the UI thread because the entire program freezes
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