child_process fork

example.js

// compute.js

const longComputation = () => {
  let sum = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < 1e9; i++) {
    sum += i;
  };
  return sum;
};

process.on('message', (msg) => {
  const sum = longComputation();
  process.send(sum);
});

// main.js
const http = require('http');
const { fork } = require('child_process');

const server = http.createServer();

server.on('request', (req, res) => {
  if (req.url === '/compute') {
    const compute = fork('compute.js');
    compute.send('start');
    compute.on('message', sum => {
      res.end(`Sum is ${sum}`);
    });
  } else {
    res.end('Ok')
  }
});

server.listen(3000);