Luc Chmielowski

…PIs that you’ve chosen actually provides great benefits to your productivity, let me first clarify. The general point I am trying to convey is that if you are a beginner-to-novice web developer, or even a seasoned programmer new to web development, you should not immediately reach for a tool that abstracts over the fundamentals of the platform you’re building on. You should first focus on understanding the basic concepts that are core to building things for the…

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler

The job of the Event loop is to look into the call stack and determine if the call stack is empty or not. If the call stack is empty, it looks into the message queue to see if there’s any pending call back waiting to be executed.