Learning Node.js Development

Basics of Asynchronous Programming in Node.js

If you've read any article about Node, you'd have probably come across four terms: asynchronous, non-blocking, event-based, and single-threaded. All of those are accurate terms to describe Node; the problem is it usually stops there, and it's really abstract. The topic of asynchronous programming in Node.js has been divided into three chapters. The goal in these upcoming three chapters is to make asynchronous programming super practical by putting all these terms to use in our weather application. That's the project we're going to be building in these chapters.

This chapter is all about the basics of asynchronous programming. We'll look into the basic concepts, terms, and technology related to ...