Handling multiple parallel HTTP requests in Node.js

Question

I know that Node is non-blocking, but I just realized that the default behaviour of http.listen(8000) means that all HTTP requests are handled one-at-a-time. I

Answer 1

Your code can accept multiple connections because the job is done in callback function of the setTimeout call.

But if you instead of setTimeout do a heavy job... then it is true that node.js will not accept other multiple connections! SetTimeout accidentally frees the process so the node.js can accept other jobs and you code is executed in other "thread".

I don't know which is the correct way to implement this. But this is how it seems to work.