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#event-loop
Frontend
PART 04
The JavaScript Event Loop in Depth: Tasks, Microtasks and Rendering Order
We work through output-order puzzles to see the task and microtask queues, where promises and queueMicrotask fit, when requestAnimationFrame runs in the rendering step, and why long tasks freeze the page.
3 Nov 2026
9 min
5
Frontend
PART 08
Intro to Asynchronous JavaScript: The Call Stack, the Event Loop and Callbacks
We see how single-threaded JavaScript handles waiting without freezing the page through the call stack, Web APIs, the callback queue and the event loop, and unpack setTimeout(fn, 0) and callback hell.
3 Nov 2026
8 min
6