src/worker.js

import { pipeline } from '@xenova/transformers';

/**
 * This class uses the Singleton pattern to ensure that only one instance of the
 * pipeline is loaded. This is because loading the pipeline is an expensive
 * operation and we don't want to do it every time we want to translate a sentence.
 */
class MyTranslationPipeline {
  static task = "translation";
  static model = "tarsssss/eng-jagoy-t5-001";
  static instance = null;

  static async getInstance(progress_callback = null) {
    if (this.instance === null) {
      this.instance = pipeline(this.task, this.model, { progress_callback });
    }

    return this.instance;
  }
}

// Listen for messages from the main thread
self.addEventListener('message', async (event) => {
    // Retrieve the translation pipeline. When called for the first time,
    // this will load the pipeline and save it for future use.
    let translator = await MyTranslationPipeline.getInstance(x => {
        // We also add a progress callback to the pipeline so that we can
        // track model loading.
        self.postMessage(x);
    });

    // Actually perform the translation
    let output = await translator(event.data.text, {
        tgt_lang: event.data.tgt_lang,
        src_lang: event.data.src_lang,

        // Allows for partial output
        callback_function: x => {
            self.postMessage({
                status: 'update',
                output: translator.tokenizer.decode(x[0].output_token_ids, { skip_special_tokens: true })
            });
        }
    });

    // Send the output back to the main thread
    self.postMessage({
        status: 'complete',
        output: output,
    });
});