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Bright Kunda Mulomba
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What is Node.js

What is Node.js?

Node.js is an open source web server environment
It can run JavaScript outside the browser.

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An Animated Guide to Node.js Event Loop

Node.js doesn’t stop from running other operations because of Libuv, a C++ library responsible for the event loop and asynchronously handling tasks such as network requests, DNS resolution, file system operations, data encryption, etc.

What happens under the hood when Node.js works on tasks such as database queries? We will explore it by following this piece of code step by step.