Is NodeJS really Single-Threaded?

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NodeJS is evented (2nd line from the website), not single-threaded. It internally handles threading needed to do select/epoll/kqueue handling without the user explicitly having to manage that, but that doesn’t mean there is no thread usage within it.

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