EP08 — Garbage Collection & Memory Leaks

from Oh, That's Why. · host Gize Bonilla

Your application gets slower over time. Memory creeps up.No error, no crash — just quiet accumulation.In this Season 1 finale, Alex Vega explains how JavaScript's garbagecollector works, why memory leaks happen, and the four most commonpatterns that cause them — through the night cleaning crew analogy.Eight episodes. One complete picture of how JavaScript runs.You can find the Medium article here.Oh, That's Why. — JavaScript, finally making sense.#JavaScript #Web Development #Programming #Software Engineering #Learning to Code

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