Node.js is known as a blazingly fast server platform with its revolutionary single-thread architecture, utilizing server resources more efficiently. But is it actually possible to achieve that…

Henrique Schroeder

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Node.js, often perceived as a single-threaded platform, utilizes an event-driven, non-blocking architecture to handle I/O operations efficiently. While it manages most operations via a single thread, it also employs the libuv library, which uses an event demultiplexer and a thread pool for certain operations (like file I/O or DNS queries) that can't be handled asynchronously. This allows Node.js to maximize resource utilization and handle multiple client requests concurrently.

Node.js is Not Single-Threaded

Yeah, that “single-threaded” bullshit is so misleading

Can anyone recommend me a good free source to learn Nodejs?

Got any catchy name for set of instructions to explain JS?

There’s also workers: <a href="https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html</a>
There are libraries to skip most of the boilerplate.
What I do is create and call executables (or bash files) for CPU intensive tasks, it’s way more efficient (e.g. process large JSON files with OctoSQL).
If your goal is general throughput and not compute-heavy tasks you don’t need multithreading, you need multiple nodes. Just use pm2.

I was learning clustering in nodejs this post on time