Synchronous code

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SYNCHRONOUS CODE

const p = document.querySelecter('.p');
p.textContent = 'My name is Jonas!';
alert('Text set!'); // Block the all code from running untill
// you close the popup
p.style.color = 'red';

👉 Most code is synchronous;
👉 Synchronous code is executed line by line;
👉 Each line of code waits for previous line to finish;
👎 Long-running operations block code execution.

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