How does the Node.js event loop differ from traditional multi-threaded servers?

Mid NodeJS

Answer

Traditional servers create threads per request. Node.js uses a single-threaded event loop and offloads heavy tasks to worker threads, making it efficient for I/O-heavy workloads.

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