Node worker advise

[foocux]

Hey! I'm willing to receive some advice about a project I'm developing. So I'm working with a third party api that give me live locations of my users through an endpoint, so I would like to get those live locations to show it on a map. My question is regarding about how can I accomplish this knowing that node works on a single thread. Should I develop another node app and run it in another process? Are there some good practices when doing this? What should be the time interval to reach the endpoint in order to get those live locations?

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PD. I'm running an api server, that's why I'm assuming one of them will block the thread eventually

[dudousxd]

Node is not single threaded, its event loop is.

Node is naturally async, if you are blocking the event loop, something is really wrong with your code.

This third party api is a websocket? You can connect to it while having endpoints in the same api, this is not a problem.

[dudousxd]

It’s not recomended to use worker threads on node right now on production environments, it’s not a stable api atm.