Learning NodeJS Part 1: Understanding the Essentials

 By DEV Community - 2021-01-05

Description

In late fall of 2020, I went on a mission to better understand Node. I wanted to improve the way I us...

Summary

  • In late fall of 2020, I went on a mission to better understand Node.
  • This functionality is facilitated through the use of callbacks.
  • JS executes all operations on a single thread, but using a few smart data structures, it gives us the illusion of multi-threading.
  • Ajax requests would be treated the same way - put into the webapi section, because the code for a request does not live in the JS runtime, it lives in the browser webapi.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.15)
  2. Frontend (0.15)
  3. Database (0.08)

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