Understand the underlying Javascript - event loop

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  • libevent

    Event notification library

  • They're different. Node uses libuv while chromium uses libevent. You're also seeing different APIs for working with the event loop like nextTick() in Node that doesn't exist in browsers.

  • libuv

    Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

  • They're different. Node uses libuv while chromium uses libevent. You're also seeing different APIs for working with the event loop like nextTick() in Node that doesn't exist in browsers.

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