diff --git a/src/App.tsx b/src/App.tsx
index 43dec32..acf75a8 100644
--- a/src/App.tsx
+++ b/src/App.tsx
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ import '@ionic/react/css/display.css';
 
 /* Theme variables */
 import './theme/variables.css';
+
+import dispatch from './workers/dispatcher-main';
+
 import LiveMap from './components/map/LiveMap';
 
 import { atom, useAtom } from 'jotai';
@@ -37,10 +40,10 @@ import { geoPoint } from './components/map/types';
 import Back from './components/buttons/Back';
 import Forward from './components/buttons/Forward';
 import CurrentLocation from './components/map/CurrentLocation';
-import { initDb } from './db';
-import PouchDB from 'pouchdb';
-import PouchDBFind from 'pouchdb-find';
-PouchDB.plugin(PouchDBFind);
+// import { initDb } from './db';
+// import PouchDB from 'pouchdb';
+// import PouchDBFind from 'pouchdb-find';
+// PouchDB.plugin(PouchDBFind);
 
 setupIonicReact();
 
@@ -88,8 +91,10 @@ export const setCenterAtom = atom(null, (get, set, center: geoPoint) => {
   set(scopeAtom, newScope);
 });
 
-const db = new PouchDB('dyomedea', { auto_compaction: true, revs_limit: 10 });
-initDb(db);
+// const db = new PouchDB('dyomedea', { auto_compaction: true, revs_limit: 10 });
+// initDb(db);
+
+dispatch({ action: 'initDb' });
 
 /**
  *
diff --git a/src/workers/dispatcher-main.test.js b/src/workers/dispatcher-main.test.js
index f80a883..0b9504c 100644
--- a/src/workers/dispatcher-main.test.js
+++ b/src/workers/dispatcher-main.test.js
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 import dispatch, { init, worker } from './dispatcher-main';
 
+var mockPostMessage = jest.fn();
+
+jest.mock('./get-worker', () => ({
+  getWorker: () => ({
+    port: {
+      postMessage: jest.fn(),
+    },
+  }),
+}));
+
 describe('The dispatcher-main', () => {
-  var postMessage = jest.fn();
   beforeEach(() => {
-    global.SharedWorker = jest.fn(function (source) {
-      this.source = source;
-      this.port = {
-        postMessage,
-      };
-      return this;
-    });
     init();
   });
   test('should create a new shared web worker', () => {
-    expect(SharedWorker).toBeCalled();
+    expect(worker).toBeDefined();
   });
   test('should create a onmessage function', () => {
     expect(worker.port.onmessage).toBeDefined();
@@ -23,6 +25,6 @@ describe('The dispatcher-main', () => {
   });
   test('should send back the message', () => {
     dispatch('ping');
-    expect(postMessage).toBeCalledWith({ id: 0, payload: 'ping' });
+    expect(worker.port.postMessage).toBeCalledWith({ id: 0, payload: 'ping' });
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/workers/dispatcher-main.ts b/src/workers/dispatcher-main.ts
index db0a7a3..57f9ca3 100644
--- a/src/workers/dispatcher-main.ts
+++ b/src/workers/dispatcher-main.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { getWorker } from './get-worker';
+
 declare global {
   var dispatcherQueue: { index: number; queue: Map<number, any> };
 }
@@ -7,7 +9,9 @@ export var worker: any;
 export const init = () => {
   globalThis.dispatcherQueue = { index: 0, queue: new Map() };
 
-  worker = new SharedWorker('./dispatcher-worker');
+  worker = getWorker();
+
+  console.log(`worker: ${worker}`)
 
   worker.port.onmessage = (event: any) => {
     const { id, payload } = event.data;
diff --git a/src/workers/get-worker.ts b/src/workers/get-worker.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fff7835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/workers/get-worker.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export const getWorker = () =>
+  new SharedWorker(new URL('./dispatcher-worker', import.meta.url));
+
+export default getWorker;