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Wei Lun
Software Engineer, Founder
So can we say Node.js is kind of single-threaded?
Fakorede Abiola
Yes. Cos the event loop which Node.js applications runs on is single-threaded. But it can also be multi-threaded when the app makes use of standard libraries which run on the libuv threadpool like the crypto library.