Eev

A tiny, fast, zero-dependency event emitter for JavaScript.

• Less than 500 bytes minified + zipped
• Fast... see jsperf
• Zero dependencies
• Simple

Usage

Create an Eev instance.

  var e = new Eev();

Then, add handlers as you see fit.

  e.on('some-event', function (data) {
    alert('got ' + data);
  });
 
  e.on('some-event', function (data) {
    console.log('got ' + data);
  });

Remove handlers using off.

  function myHandler (data) { console.log(data); }
 
  e.on('some-event', myHandler);
  e.off('some-event', myHandler);

Trigger events using emit.

  // The second parameter here is the data you wish to
  // pass to the event handlers
  e.emit('some-event', { foo: 'Bar' });

If you want a handler to only run once, you can do this:

  e.on('some-event', function foo () {
    e.off('some-event', foo);
 
    // Do stuff
  });

You can register for multiple events at once like this:

  function myHandler (data) { console.log(data); }
 
  e.on('event1 event2 etc', myHandler);
  e.off('event1 event2 etc', myHandler);

Stopping propagation isn't build into Eev. If enough people ask for it, I'll bake it in. Meanwile, you can work around this limitation by doing something like this:

 
  ;(function () {
    var superOn = Eev.prototype.on;
 
    Eev.prototype.on = function (names, fn) {
      superOn.call(this, names, function (data) {
        if (!data.isCanceled) {
          return fn(data);
        }
      });
    };
 
  }());
 

With the above patch in place, you can do something like this in your event handlers:

e.on('some-event', function foo (data) {
  data.isCanceled = true; // Now, no downstream handlers should be invoked
})

Installation

Just download eev.min.js, or use bower:

bower install eev

Or use npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eev

npm install --save eev

License MIT

Copyright (c) 2015 Chris Davies

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