JavaScript Under The Hood

JavaScript Under The Hood

Learn about advanced JavaScript and how it works under the hood

4.6
(86 ratings)
4.9k enrolled
Course Instructor: Brad Traversy

Course Outcomes

  • Thread and Call Stack
  • Execution Context in JavaScript
  • Memory overview
  • JavaScript Engine
  • Async JS features
  • Task Queues
  • Event loops

Course Structure

10 lectures1h 16m total duration

  Execution Thread And Call Stack 
9min
  Execution Context 
15min
  Fix this code 
5min
  Async JS, Task Queue, Event Loop 
12min
  Quiz 
1min
  Convert to async JS 
5min

About This Course

JavaScript is a scripting language that uses high-level features of the C language and other languages such as Scheme, Perl, Ruby, Python and more. It was designed by Brendan Eich, who also created the Web browser Firefox.

This course will go in depth on how JavaScript works and how it advanced things like queues, call stack, async JS to name a few are used. You will learn about the following things in this course:

  • How thread and call stack work in JavaScript
  • What is execution context in JavaScript
  • How does JS work with memory
  • What are different kinds of JavaScript engines
  • What are some async JS features
  • Event loop working and how task queues work

Used by learners at

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Amazon
Google

This course is interactive

Interactive courses include hands-on coding exercises to practice as you learn. You practice exercises in a VS Code like IDE without any installation/setup.

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Featured Review

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Ashutosh Kharat

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5.0
This so far the best explanatory coding course videos. Thank you for great explanations.

Student Feedback

4.6
Course Rating

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Reviews

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Onyesom Uchenna Chidera
Nov 06, 2024
this course helped me to learn about js
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Mengistu Tarko
Sep 21, 2024
very nice and understandable course
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Abhishek Khati
Sep 20, 2024
one of the best teacher in codedamn and youtube..best ever
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Houssam
Sep 09, 2024
Well explanation
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Shreya Kundu
Sep 01, 2024
thank you .I like the course

Course Instructor

Brad Traversy
Online Coding Educator
Brad Traversy
4.6 Instructor rating
86 Ratings
4.9k Students
1 Course

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