Glossary term
What is starvation? Meaning for developers
When microtasks keep adding more microtasks, so the callback queue never gets a turn and timers and clicks stall.
Learn it properly · JavaScript CoreLesson 14: Async JS and the Event LoopCall stack, Web APIs, callback queue, microtask queue and the event loop that ties them together, stepped tick by tick — plus async/await, where rendering fits, starvation, and why setTimeout(0) is not 0.