## Sending events from a worker thread This second example demonstrates how we can use events to communicate from the worker thread to the main thread. Like before, we create a thread and we define the fibonacci function: ``` javascript var Threads = require('webworker-threads'); var t = Threads.create(); function fibo(n) { return n > 1 ? fibo(n - 1) + fibo(n - 2) : 1; } ``` Instead of running a single fibonacci computation in the worker thread, we are going to execute a function that computes all fibonacci numbers and emits a `data` event for every number it generates. This function runs inside the worker thread so it does not see the `t` variable which belongs to the main thread. But **webworker-threads** sets up a global `thread` variable that the worker thread can use to send events to the main thread. Here is our fibonacci generator: ``` javascript function generateFibos(max) { for (var i = 1; i <= max; i++) { thread.emit("data", i, fibo(i)); } } ``` Note: this is obviously a very inefficient algorithm to generate the sequence of fibonacci numbers. Inside the main thread, we set up an event listener for the `data` events emitted by the worker thread: ``` javascript t.on('data', function(n, result) { console.log('fibo(' + n + ') = ' + result); }) ``` Now, we are ready to go. We load the two functions into the worker thread ``` javascript t.eval(fibo); t.eval(generateFibos); ``` And we run the generator with a callback that will execute when the generator returns from its loop: ``` javascript t.eval("generateFibos(40)", function(err, result) { if (err) throw err; console.log("generator is done!"); t.destroy(); }); ``` ### Output ``` fibo(1) = 1 fibo(2) = 2 fibo(3) = 3 fibo(4) = 5 ... fibo(39) = 102334155 fibo(40) = 165580141 generator is done! ```