Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 9, 2021The JavaScript Execution ModelPart 2: How Promises interact with JavaScript’s Call Stack and Event Loop — The animated visualizations in this post were created with https://jsv9000.app — a tool designed to help you visualize and learn about the Event Loop. In the previous post, we learned about JavaScript’s Call Stack and Event Loop. We worked through an example that used setTimeout() to break a long-running synchronous…Java Script9 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 9, 2021The JavaScript Execution ModelPart 1: The Call Stack, the Event Loop — The animated visualizations in this post were created with https://jsv9000.app — a tool designed to help you visualize and learn about the Event Loop. I’ve been writing JavaScript for awhile. I’ve written web services with Express, web apps with React, mobile apps with React Native, and I’ve authored libraries, such…Javascript Event Loop10 min read
Published in The Startup·May 17, 2020Member-onlyHow to Create and Modify PDF Files in Deno With pdf-libDeno is an exciting new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. It was created by the original author of Node and corrects some key mistakes in Node’s design. Version 1.0 of Deno was announced just 5 days ago on May 13th, 2020. Many developers (myself included) are very excited about Deno…Deno5 min read
