--- title: "A Practical Intro to Worker Threads in Node 10.5" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 244 published_at: "2018-06-28" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/244" --- The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects. #244 — June 28, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/244) Node Weekly [A Practical Intro to Worker Threads in Node 10.5](https://medium.com/dailyjs/threads-in-node-10-5-0-a-practical-intro-3b85a0a3c953) — Node 10.5 was [released last week](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.5.0/) and added _experimental_ support for ‘worker threads’ which essentially brings multi-threading support to Node. Here’s a look at how to use it. Prefer a video? 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