The WorkerGlobalScope interface of the WorkerNavigator object. Each WorkerGlobalScope has its own event loop.

This interface is usually specialized by each worker type: ServiceWorker. The self property returns the specialized scope for each context.

Instance properties

This interface inherits properties from the EventTarget interface.

WorkerGlobalScope.caches Read only Secure context: Returns the CacheStorage object associated with the current context. This object enables functionality such as storing assets for offline use, and generating custom responses to requests.
WorkerGlobalScope.crossOriginIsolated Read only: Returns a boolean value that indicates whether the website is in a cross-origin isolation state.
WorkerGlobalScope.crypto Read only: Returns the Crypto object associated to the global object.
WorkerGlobalScope.fonts Read only: Returns the FontFaceSet associated with the worker.
WorkerGlobalScope.indexedDB Read only: Provides a mechanism for workers to asynchronously access capabilities of indexed databases; returns an IDBFactory object.
WorkerGlobalScope.isSecureContext Read only: Returns a boolean indicating whether the current context is secure (true) or not (false).
WorkerGlobalScope.location Read only: Returns the Location for browsing scopes, but adapted to workers.
WorkerGlobalScope.navigator Read only: Returns the Navigator for browsing scopes, but adapted to workers.
WorkerGlobalScope.origin Read only: Returns the global object's origin, serialized as a string.
WorkerGlobalScope.performance Read only: Returns the Performance associated with the worker. Only a subset of the properties and methods of the Performance interface are available to workers.
WorkerGlobalScope.scheduler Read only: Returns the Prioritized Task Scheduling API.
WorkerGlobalScope.trustedTypes Read only: Returns the Trusted Types API.
WorkerGlobalScope.self Read only: Returns a reference to the WorkerGlobalScope itself. Most of the time it is a specific scope like ServiceWorkerGlobalScope.

Instance methods

This interface inherits methods from the EventTarget interface.

WorkerGlobalScope.atob(): Decodes a string of data which has been encoded using base-64 encoding.
WorkerGlobalScope.btoa(): Creates a base-64 encoded ASCII string from a string of binary data.
WorkerGlobalScope.clearInterval(): Cancels the repeated execution set using WorkerGlobalScope.setInterval().
WorkerGlobalScope.clearTimeout(): Cancels the delayed execution set using WorkerGlobalScope.setTimeout().
WorkerGlobalScope.createImageBitmap(): Accepts a variety of different image sources, and returns a ImageBitmap. Optionally the source is cropped to the rectangle of pixels originating at (sx, sy) with width sw, and height sh.
WorkerGlobalScope.dump() Deprecated Non-standard: Allows you to write a message to stdout — i.e. in your terminal. This is the same as Firefox's window.dump, but for workers.
WorkerGlobalScope.fetch(): Starts the process of fetching a resource from the network.
WorkerGlobalScope.importScripts(): Imports one or more scripts into the worker's scope. You can specify as many as you'd like, separated by commas. For example: importScripts('foo.js', 'bar.js');.
WorkerGlobalScope.queueMicrotask(): Queues a microtask to be executed at a safe time prior to control returning to the browser's event loop.
WorkerGlobalScope.setInterval(): Schedules a function to execute every time a given number of milliseconds elapses.
WorkerGlobalScope.setTimeout(): Schedules a function to execute in a given amount of time.
WorkerGlobalScope.structuredClone(): Creates a structured clone algorithm.
WorkerGlobalScope.reportError(): Reports an error in a script, emulating an unhandled exception.

Events

error: Fired when an error occurred.
languagechange: Fired at the global/worker scope object when the user's preferred languages change.
offline: Fired when the browser has lost access to the network and the value of navigator.onLine switched to false.
online: Fired when the browser has gained access to the network and the value of navigator.onLine switched to true.
rejectionhandled: Fired on handled Promise rejection events.
securitypolicyviolation: Fired when a Content Security Policy is violated.
unhandledrejection: Fired on unhandled Promise rejection events.

You won't access WorkerGlobalScope directly in your code; however, its properties and methods are inherited by more specific global scopes such as SharedWorkerGlobalScope. For example, you could import another script into the worker and print out the contents of the worker scope's navigator object using the following two lines:

importScripts("foo.js");
console.log(navigator);

Note: Since the global scope of the worker script is effectively the global scope of the worker you are running (DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope or whatever) and all worker global scopes inherit methods, properties, etc. from WorkerGlobalScope, you can run lines such as those above without specifying a parent object.

Specifications

Specification
HTML # the-workerglobalscope-common-interface

Browser compatibility

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Instance properties

Instance methods

Events

Example

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also