After writing in Node.js for 3 years, I felt that the majority of the posts about it were lacking deeper knowledge, especially about the event loops internals, so, I decided to dig deep and give you my insights. Node.js seems like a simple beast to handle but in reality, there are a lot of layers of abstraction behind it. From one perspective, this abstraction is great, but, like everything else in software, abstraction comes at a cost.
The purpose of this post is to show you a broader picture of how the Node core handles the event loop, what it really is and how it coexists with the JS runtime.
