Node Essentials
The event loop & async I/O
Lesson 2 of 5
Node stays on one thread by never waiting — it queues work and comes back to it.
What you'll learn
- Understand why blocking is the enemy in a single-threaded runtime
- Order synchronous code, microtasks, and timers correctly
- See that promises run before timers within a tick
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