Interview Q&A / Node.js

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Node.js interview questions

The event loop on the server, streams, modules and building APIs with Express.

  1. When would you use worker_threads, cluster or child_process in Node.js?

    Use worker_threads for CPU-heavy JavaScript inside one process, cluster to run several copies of a server across CPU cores sharing one port, and child_process to run a separate program or script such as ffmpeg or a Python file.

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