I'm a full-stack developer working with JavaScript and its associated runtimes for the past 7 years. I love to play with code and make something useful out of it! You can find me on social media, I'm quite active there :)


Mehul Mohan

Learn the internals of Node.js runtime - V8 and libuv in this course

Introduction

Course Contents

What exactly is Node.js?

More JS Engines

fs.readFileSync under the hood

Exploring C++ code

fs.readFile under the hood

Threads and Processes

Node.js is multi-threaded?

Bcrypt

Playing with thread pool

What is threadpool?

Optimum threadpool size

Starting event loop

Introduction to event loop

What is call stack?

Internal Web API

Task Queues

Understanding Task Queue

rAF Queue

Microtask queues

Example Question

Another example question

Final example question

Node.js is a runtime built on top of JavaScript (V8) + libuv. It provides an excellent way to create I/O driven tasks and in this free advanced course, we will take a look inside a few internals of Node.js. Let’s start.

Advanced Node.js Course

Advanced Node.js Course

Goals

Description

Plan Zero

Plan 1337