The JavaScript Event Loop

Javascript is a single minded language. Or, more accurately, a single-threaded one. However you probably can’t spend much time on the internet without running into our friend JS — who seems to be doing many, many things at a time. This is because it can do things asynchronously. To understand what it does and how it does it, we need to become familiar with its event loop.

There are a few things that make up the ecosystem of the event loop : or things you need to know.

Let’s’ talk about the call stack.

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The Call Stack

JavaScript uses a data structure, which we call the call stack to keep track of every function call that’s made …

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Web APIs

Javascript is a single threaded language that has to do things in the order they come in – but also it can do things asynchronously. How? That’s where Web APIs come in.

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Web APIs

Javascript is a single threaded language that has to do things in the order they come in – but also …

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