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The vast majority of modern JavaScript environments work according to an event loop. This is a common concept in computer programming which essentially means that your program continually waits for new things to happen, and when they do, reacts to them. The host environment calls into your program, ...

Many interesting operations in common JavaScript programming environments are asynchronous. For example, in the browser we see things like window.setTimeout(() => { console.log("this happens later"); }, 100); and in Node.js we see things like fs.readFile("file.txt", (...