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Abdallah Mansour • Edited

Thank you for replying 💙 , but for this piece of code I put fs.promise.readFile upfront so it would(should) be resolved and pushed to the queue early before settimeout, can you clarify why this output .. !



const fs=require('fs')

// text.txt file just contains 'Hello World'
const read=fs.promises.readFile('./text.txt','utf-8')

read.then(()=>{
    console.log('from promise')
})

//just looping to ensure that the file has finished reading
for(let i=0;i<10000;i++){
    console.log('looping...')
}

setTimeout(() => {
    console.log('from setTimeout')
}, 0);


//--output--
// looping...
// from setTimeout
// from promise