The Node.js Event Loop Explained

Hello readers 👋, welcome to the 4th blog in our Node.js journey! In the last few posts, we installed Node.js, explored what it is, and uncovered why it's so fast for web applications. We kept mentioning the event loop as the secret sauce behind Node.js's non-blocking superpower. Today, we are going to shine a light directly on it and understand what the event loop actually does, how it manages async operations, and why it makes Node.js incredibly scalable. Think of this as meeting the conductor