The event loop is crucial to how Node.js handles asynchronous operations while still being single-threaded. Yet many developers don’t fully understand how the event loop works. This leads to confusion and headaches during debugging sessions where you are left wondering, “Why did my code execute in this order?” In this talk we’ll take a deep dive into the event loop and look at methods like setTimeout, setInterval, setImmediate, and process.nextTick, along with callbacks, promises, and async/await. I wrote an article on this concept earlier, so this talk will expand on these ideas: https://betterprogramming.pub/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop-a4030f4b0716?sk=db415235d0851e9d14cfbd29ef4d7a99