title: Is there a way to force terminate a worker thread in node.js?
body: <p>I was looking around for my question but to no avail. I wanted to know if there was a way to force a worker to terminate a worker thread even if its task hadn't been completed. I have some code in there that calls itself if it somehow fails, which is intentional even though it might be bad code practice. I tried using libraries such as microjob and threads, but those didn't have what I wanted. Here is what I tried to do with threads but didn't work:</p>
  <pre><code>// Module part of threads (taskModule)
  expose(async function startTask(taskData, profileData, taskID) {
  
      await _Task.FetchData(taskData);
      await _Task.GenerateSession(profileData);
      await _Task.RequestPermission(taskID);
      await _Task.SubmitOrder();
  
      return &quot;finished&quot;;
  })
  </code></pre>
  <pre><code>// Runs the module (main.js)
  const {spawn, Thread, Worker} = require(&quot;threads&quot;);
  
  let task = null;
  
  async function test() {
      task = await spawn(new Worker('./taskModule'))
      startTask({},{},&quot;0&quot;)
  }
  
  setTimeout(async function() {
      await Thread.terminate(task)
  }, 3000)
  
  test().then(() =&gt; {
      console.log('hello')
  }).catch(console.error)
  </code></pre>
  <p>I was trying to test to see if the code would stop after 3 seconds to test, but it seems like it just continues. Is there a better way to do this type of task?</p>
  <p>Thanks for any help. </p>