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Morning Keynote- Everything You Need to Know About Node.js Event Loop - Bert Belder, IBM

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Bert Belder explains the design and inner workings of the Node.js event loop and libuv, addressing common developer misconceptions.

Morning Keynote- Everything You Need to Know About Node.js Event Loop - Bert Belder, IBM If you're a Node.js programmer, you probably know that node has an event loop, just like a web browser. But there are many misconceptions about how it really works. Does Node use threads, or not? Where do callbacks come from? Is it better to use nextTick or setImmediate? Node's event loop is built on libuv, and libuv's author is here to tell you all a Node developer needs to know about the event loop.

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Is there any source explaining how promises work in the event loop? The official documentation only talks about callbacks and I've watched those and it's not fully clear. The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded Node's Event Loop From the Inside Out by Sam Roberts, IBM [Morning Keynote- Everything You Need to Know About Node.js Event Loop - Bert Belder, IBM] Jake Archibald: In The Loop - JSConf.Asia 2018 the last one is about Js in general -browser event loop- but watched it anyway.