HVHarsh Vyasinharshvyas2704.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 5 min readV8 Isn't Node: What Node Actually AddsWhen people say "Node is fast because of V8," they are only telling half the story. V8 is just a JavaScript engine. It compiles and runs JS. That's it. Everything that makes Node useful as a runtime, 00
HVHarsh Vyasinharshvyas2704.hashnode.dev·Jul 30 · 5 min readlibuv: The C Library Doing the Work Node Gets Credit ForIn my last post I explained the Node.js event loop for people who already know JS. If you read that, you know the loop has phases: timers, pending callbacks, poll, check, close callbacks. What I skipp00
HVHarsh Vyasinharshvyas2704.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 4 min readThe Node.js Event Loop, Explained for Someone Who Already Knows JSIf you've written React or React Native for a while, you already understand async JavaScript. Promises, async/await, setTimeout, all of it. So when people explain Node's event loop like you're new to 00
HVHarsh Vyasinharshvyas2704.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 12 min readMokshapat: Rebuilding a 700-Year-Old Game of Liberation in React NativeMost people have played Snakes and Ladders. Almost nobody has played Mokshapat, even though they're the same game underneath. One is a kids' pastime with no meaning attached. The other is a 700 year o00
HVHarsh Vyasinharshvyas2704.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 10 min readI Built a Full Stack Reddit Clone and Deployed It. Here's Everything I LearnedI wanted to build something that would actually challenge me. Not another todo app or weather widget. Something with real backend complexity that I could put on my resume and talk about in interviews 00
