Differentiate between spawn() and fork() methods in Node.js?

The child_process.spawn() method spawns the child process asynchronously, without blocking the Node.js event loop.

child_process.fork(): spawns a new Node.js process and invokes a specified module with an IPC communication channel established that allows sending messages between parent and child.

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