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What determines which Javascript functions are blocking vs non-blocking?
I have been doing web-based Javascript (vanilla JS, jQuery, Backbone, etc.) for a few years now, and recently I've been doing some work with Node.js. It took me a while to get the hang of "non-...
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How can NodeJS be "non-blocking"?
I'm learning NodeJS and just wanted to clarify something. In several introductory tutorials and books so far, very early on they've described Node's "non-blocking" architecture - or rather that it's ...
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In Node.js, are non-blocking constructs usually preferable to blocking ones?
Is the following a statement of best practices in Node.js with regard to web applications? If not, how could it be improved?
The statement
The lifecycle of any web app has at least two phases: a ...
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