I've been reading some documents about shared worker context. Lots of them point out shared worker do not share variables, which means they can not use each other variables. However, my experiment againsts that.
Parent worker
var port = new SharedWorker('worker.js').port;
port.start();
port.postMessage('Hello');
Worker
var ports = [];
onconnect = function(e){
var port = e.ports[0];
port.start();
ports.push(port);
console.log('Number of tabs: '+ports.length);
};
ports.length
keeps increasing when I open more tabs, which means ports
is shared between workers.
Could anybody please explain this?