The Magic Behind JavaScript: Understanding the Event Loop

Luka Onikadze
3 min readJul 29, 2023

You’re a JavaScript developer, and you’ve been crafting beautiful user interfaces, making asynchronous API calls, and adding interactive elements to your web pages. All is going well until one day, you ask yourself: “How does JavaScript handle all these asynchronous operations and still remain non-blocking?”

Enter the Event Loop.

A Brief Background

JavaScript, as many know, is a single-threaded language. This means it processes one operation at a time, from start to…

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