Node.js How the Node.js Event Loop Polls With Node.js, we can build lightning fast API's, just by using the built-in asynchronous API's. But how does it get that kind of performance? Or, more particularly, how does it manage the event queue?
Node.js Asynchronous I/O The fundamental insight of Node.js is two-fold. The first part is that I/O is the usually the slowest thing a server does. The second part is that threads corresponding to requests are wasteful, because they spend most of their life waiting.
Javascript Generators in JavaScript A code-driven explanation of generators—function that can pause execution.
Node.js Classes in JavaScript Classes in JavaScript are a construction from ES6. There are subtleties in them that you don't find in other languages, because JavaScript isn't like other languages—it does prototypal inheritance.
Node.js Modules in Node.js When programming in Node.js, it's important to understand the basics of the module system, such as scope, exports, and how that allows you to do some caching.
Node.js How similar is the execution of Java and JavaScript? Java and JavaScript are two of the most popular languages out there. On the surface, their execution is very different—one being interpreted and the other running on this important platform called the JVM. But how different are they?
