More about Node.js Hello Folks! Welcome to the part 2 of the Introduction to Node.js blog. Before you read this blog further, it is must to read the previous blogs for better understanding. Here is the Introduction to Node.js link. So let's proceed to learn node.js . In this post we will mainly discuss on node.js architecture, the event loop and the thread pool. Node.js Architecture: As said before, Node.js is majorly dependent upon the Chrome's V8 engine and LIBUV library for its working. Now I guess you know what is V8 Engine and LIBUV library from the Part 1 of this blog. It is to be mentioned that LIBUV is a library in Node.js which is written in C++ and V8 Engine also uses C++ besides using JavaScript. Therefore, Node.js is not just JavaScript as you might have thought. Now, its time for us to discuss in detail the "Event Loop" and the "Thread Pool" in Node.js. The Event Loop enables Node.js to perform non-blocking I/O operat...
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