What exactly is the Event Loop in JavaScript? | CodeSketched

In this video, we look at the concept of the event loop. We learn about the heap, the stack, and the message queue and how these three concepts work together which is at the core of how the language works.

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[Shivam-slsp]

Remarkable efforts and unbelievably effective and concise. Keep making these behind the scences in depth videos very few people cover these and less than a handful can deliver it effectively.

[shashankbhatgs]

Great explanation!
And about the question, I think the setTimeout with 0 sec would still wait in the queue till the other functions get executed.

[this.channel]

Perhaps setTimeout with 0 passed is a way to do non blocking code. Like async or something.

[shivamrawat]

does every function has it's own personal message queue? what if there's async code within async code? will it go to queue or stack?

[pavankumar-ofew]

to avoid that, async concept we need to use