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The Event Loop, Visualized
Watch the JS event loop run your code, step by step
Most event loop explainers are static diagrams. This one runs. Watch the call stack, Web APIs, microtask queue and task queue animate your code tick by tick: forward, backward, at any speed. - Paste your own snippet (setTimeout, promises, async/await, queueMicrotask) and simulate it - One animation, three explanations: simple, developer, or straight from the HTML spec - Ready-made scenes like Promise vs setTimeout and microtask starvation - Interview questions to test yourself
Hey Product Hunt 👋
The event loop is one of those things every JS developer "knows" until an interviewer asks why a Promise logs before setTimeout(0). [I kept re-learning it from static diagrams and blog posts, and it never fully stuck.]
So we built the thing we wished existed: an animated, steppable event loop where you can paste your own code and watch every callback move between the call stack, Web APIs, and the two queues.
A few things we're proud of:
→ Same animation, three depths. Toggle between a kid-friendly story, a developer's mental model, and the actual HTML spec terms.
→ Step backward, not just forward, so you can rewind to the exact moment something got queued.
→ A microtask starvation scene that shows how endless promises can freeze timers.
Huge credit to Philip Roberts' Loupe, which inspired this years ago.
It's free. We'd love to hear which snippet confused you most, so we can add it as an example!
About The Event Loop, Visualized on Product Hunt
“Watch the JS event loop run your code, step by step”
The Event Loop, Visualized was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #115 on the daily leaderboard. Most event loop explainers are static diagrams. This one runs. Watch the call stack, Web APIs, microtask queue and task queue animate your code tick by tick: forward, backward, at any speed. - Paste your own snippet (setTimeout, promises, async/await, queueMicrotask) and simulate it - One animation, three explanations: simple, developer, or straight from the HTML spec - Ready-made scenes like Promise vs setTimeout and microtask starvation - Interview questions to test yourself
On the analytics side, The Event Loop, Visualized competes within Education, Software Engineering and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 642.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how The Event Loop, Visualized performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted The Event Loop, Visualized?
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