Learning Node.js Development

Summary

In this chapter, we have gone through a basic example of asynchronous programming. Next, we talked about what happens behind the scenes when you run asynchronous code. We got a really good idea about how your program runs and what tools and tricks are happening behind the scenes to make it run the way it does. We through a few examples that illustrate how the Call Stack, Node APIs, the Callback Queue, and the Event Loop work.

Then, we learned how to use the request module to make an HTTP request for some information, the URL we requested was a Google Maps Geocoding URL, and we passed in the address we want the latitude and the longitude for. Then we used a callback function that got fired once that data came back.

At the end of the ...