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# Understanding process.nextTick()

As you try to understand the Node.js event loop, one important part of it is `process.nextTick()`. Every time the event loop takes a full trip, we call it a tick.
As you try to understand the Node.js event loop, one important part of it is `process.nextTick()`.
Every time the runtime calls back into JavaScript for an event, we call it a tick.

When we pass a function to `process.nextTick()`, we instruct the engine to invoke this function at the end of the current operation, before the next event loop tick starts:
When we pass a function to `process.nextTick()`, we instruct the engine to invoke this function immediately after the current operation completes, before moving to the next phase in the event loop:

```js
process.nextTick(() => {
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