Implement web workers in an open-source javascript visualisation library

IMPORTANT: To do this project you need to know Javascript (ES 6), and be familiar with Web Workers, Gulp, and git. You are expected to be confident with development, and how to design a JS apps, and can understand what needs to be done without function-per-function spec (eg. if you do not know how a web worker works, you are expected to go to the official HTML5 documentation). CONTEXT: [login to view URL] ([login to view URL]) is an open-source library to draw charts and 2D network graphs. To render such 2D graph networks, coordinates of a set of points have to be computed using a graph layout algorithm. If you have no idea what this is, here is an example: [login to view URL] These kind of algorithms are very CPU intensive, a problem in web browsers where Javascript programs are single threaded unless you use web workers: when computing a large graph in [login to view URL], other JS functions will freeze. GOAL: The goal of this project is to modify the open-source [login to view URL] library to run its graph layout algorithms (priority for the "force atlas" layout) in the background by wrapping then in a web worker. This web worker should communicate with the main rendering thread (the web page) through the web worker API, and only transmit the strict minimum: the coordinates of points that have been computed. If the data model changes (eg. new nodes are added or deleted) the web worker shoudl be updated as well. DELIVRABLE: The expected deliverable is a zip folder published on Freelancer, containing a version of [login to view URL] that supports graph layout running in a web worker, effectively improving the performance of the rendering. You will release your code under the same licence as the original [login to view URL] project (dual licence Apache 2.0 and MIT). The first user will be me (I am using [login to view URL] in a project), but you are *strongly* encouraged to also put your branch on GitHub and submit a Pull Request to the original [login to view URL] project so that everybody can benefit from it! TO HELP YOU: To implement the web worker system, you can have a look at some old code of a previous attempt: - here: [login to view URL] - and here: [login to view URL] You can also take inspiration from this other open-source library: [login to view URL] Here are the some of steps that you may have to follow: - fork the “develop” branch of [login to view URL] from GitHub - understand how graph layout work through the documentation / source of [login to view URL] - modify the code so that the graph layout algorithm can run from a web worker - allow some control over performances, if it makes sense (for instance a refresh frequency parameter) - make sure existing unit tests pass with your changes - finally, you are encouraged to publish your code on github and submit a Pull Request to the original [login to view URL] project to share with the community! (see [login to view URL])