Asynchronicity and the Event Loop

Objectives

• Learn how JavaScript handles asynchronous functions.

• Investigate events and how they form a queue called the Event Loop on a single thread.

Topics

• Asynchronicity
• Heap, Call Stack, Task Queue, and Event Loop
• JavaScript Function Life Cycle

Resources

• Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway?

• Mozilla Event Loop

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