When you build a GUI, all lengthy operations that can be triggered by the user should take place on a background thread so that the GUI doesn’t become unresponsive. Why would it? Well, it’s because all GUI operations take place on a single thread - the GUI thread (the …

Recently I wrote my first Node.js program! Yeah, yeah, I know! Late to the game and all that! But I thought it was time to catch up with the rest of the world. Better late than never, right? (Also, the program needed to parse JSON data, so JavaScript felt …