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Event-Driven Programming in Node.js

Event-Driven Programming is a logical pattern that we can choose to confine our programming within to avoid issues of complexity and collision.

Event-Driven Programming makes use of the following concepts:

An Event Handler is a callback function that will be called when an event is triggered. A Main Loop listens for event triggers and calls the associated event handler for that event.

EventEmitter

is module provided by node.js to help us to get started incorporating Event-Driven Programming in our project right away.