Dart Academy · Lesson

Spawning Isolates and Message Passing

Communicate through SendPort and ReceivePort.

Going Manual

For long-lived, chatty workers you spawn an isolate yourself with Isolate.spawn. You stay in control of its whole lifetime.

Isolate.spawn needs a top-level function as its entry point, plus one argument to send it at startup.

Isolate.spawn(worker, message);