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Bobby Iliev

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JavaScript is based on the V8 engine used by Node.js and Chromium-based browsers. The engine tries to avoid parsing code that's not necessary right away. The optimized machine code can simply be re-used in order to speed things up. V8 is open source and has some great documentation on how it works under the hood.

JavaScript Visualized: the JavaScript Engine

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Woow. It is so beautiful. Thanks for nice animations, I liked them so much.

The animations are so cool and so helpful for learning the essentials of JavaScript. Thank you for sharing!

I really loved the article. It motivated me to some extend. The writer is definitely amazing.

Wow 🤯
I’m a huge fan about how things works under the hoods and I loved the way that you explained, in how you turned the theory in these lovely gifs.
Thank you so much to share with us your knowledge about JS V8 Engine.