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Event Emitter

Modern event emitter

NPM version Build Status Coverage Status js-standard-style

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Features

Install

npm install --save @librpc/ee

or download dev or prod version

Usage

import EventEmitter from '@librpc/ee'

var emitter = new EventEmitter()

function listener (data) {
  console.log(data)
}

emitter.on('event', listener)
emitter.emit('event', { foo: 'bar' }) // -> { foo: 'bar' } in console
emitter.off('event', listener)

API

Emitter

new Emitter()

Create an event emitter

Example

var emitter = new Emitter()

emitter.on(event, listener) ⇒ Emitter

Add listener to event. No context provided, use Function.prototype.bind(), arrow function or closure instead.

Kind: instance method of Emitter Returns: Emitter - Return self

Param Type Description
event string Event name
listener listener Event listener

Example

function listener (data) {
 console.log(data)
}

emitter.on('event', listener)

emitter.off(event, listener) ⇒ Emitter

Remove listener from event.

Kind: instance method of Emitter Returns: Emitter - Return self

Param Type Description
event string Event name
listener listener Event listener

Example

emitter.off('event', listener)

emitter.emit(event, data) ⇒ Emitter

Trigger an event. Multiple arguments not supported, use destructuring instead.

Kind: instance method of Emitter Returns: Emitter - Return self

Param Type Description
event string Event name
data * Event data

Example

emitter.emit('event', { foo: 'bar' })

listener : function

Param Type Description
data * Any data could be passed to event listener

Benchmark

> @librpc/[email protected] bench D:\Projects\event-emitter
> node bench/

┌──────────────────────────────┬─────────┬───────────┬─────────┐
│ EMITTER                      │ ON      │ EMIT      │ OFF     │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ events                       │ 99,258  │ 2,147,706 │ 187,842 │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ minivents                    │ 39,103  │ 1,737,633 │ 11,219  │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ mitt                         │ 134,112 │ 1,792,035 │ 231,187 │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ eventemitter3                │ 31,669  │ 2,188,591 │ 16,539  │
├──────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ ../dist/event-emitter.umd.js │ 142,386 │ 2,231,370 │ 269,298 │
└──────────────────────────────┴─────────┴───────────┴─────────┘

Development

Command Description
npm run check Check standard code style by snazzy
npm run build Wrap source code in UMD by rollup
npm run bench Run benchmark
npm run test Run tests by tape and compute code coverage by nyc
npm run min Minify code by UglifyJS
npm run docs Create docs by jsdoc-to-markdown

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