Could the web worker installation be made simpler?

[imp-dance]

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Description

The installation process for the web worker is a bit tedious and might be avoidable.

Proposed solution

I've got another project that utilizes a web worker. To avoid the issue around bundling and resolving the URL for the worker, I simply made it so that the worker is a string:

const workerCode = `...`;
const workerBlob = new Blob([workerCode], {
  type: "application/javascript",
});
const workerUrl = URL.createObjectURL(workerBlob);

const worker = new Worker(workerUrl);

This way you can have the worker code wherever you want, import it as you normally would but then avoid the consumer of the package having to "make sure it goes in the public folder" and have them resolve the path and stuff.

Another alternative that works with the node web-worker package is literally encoding the whole worker in the url:

const workerCode = `...`;
const worker = new Worker(`data:application/javascript,${encodeURIComponent(workerCode)}`)

Could this be a possible option for this package as well? Or are there some issues that I have not foreseen yet? Maybe the size of your worker file could make this less ideal?

Alternatives

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Additional information

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[wojtekmaj]

Hm, the "copying to public folder" is kind of a backup procedure if all else fails. Most bundlers will be able to leverage more convenient methods. Also, since the worker comes out of a secondary dependency, copying worker code as plain text would be a maintenance burden and would mean we will not be able to make React-PDF pdfjs version-agnostic ever.