Couple of weeks ago we started a series aimed at digging deeper into JavaScript and how it actually works: we thought that by knowing the building blocks of JavaScript and how they come to play together you’ll be able to write better code and apps. The first post of the…

The Roadmap To Becoming a Node.js Developer — Node.js has been one of the biggest game-changer since its release, bigger companies like Uber, Medium, PayPal & Walmart switched their tech stack to Node.js. You can make really powerful applications with Node.js such as real-time tracking apps, video and text chat engines, social media apps, etc. And learning Node.js…

Explaining process.nextTick, setImmediate, and setTimeout for Phases of Event Loop — In Node.js, you must have encountered one of the above-listed functions. Do you know the difference between them? In this article, we will discuss each of the function one-by-one and also compare the difference between them. The different phases of an event loop are:

How to use spawn(), exec(), execFile(), and fork() — Update: This article is now part of my book “Node.js Beyond The Basics”. Read the updated version of this content and more about Node at jscomplete.com/node-beyond-basics. Single-threaded, non-blocking performance in Node.js works great for a single process. But eventually, one process in one CPU is not going to be enough…