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Do developers manually free memory in Node.js?

No. V8 automatically manages memory allocation and cleanup through garbage collection.

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Memory management is primarily handled by Google's V8 Engine.

Stack Memory stores function calls, local variables, and primitive values.

Heap Memory stores objects, arrays, functions, and other complex data structures.

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