event-station

A versatile and robust event emitter class.

Features

• Versatile API that's flexible and consistent
• Cross-emitter listening, allowing for easier management of many listeners
• Regular expression listeners
• Asynchronous Listeners with emitAsync()
• Listener modifiers; a fluent interface for modifying listeners
  • Set callbacks and contexts with calling() and using()
  • Migration via moveTo(), addTo(), and removeFrom()
  • Remove listeners from all emitters with off()
  • Limit occurrences with occur()
  • pause(), resume(), and isPaused()
  • Create evented race() and all() promises
  • Duplication with clone()
• Browser environment compatible
• Competitive and consistent performance
• Rx compatible with toObservable()
• Helpers like stopPropagation() and listenerCount
• extend() any object
• Global and per-instance config() options
• Over 200 tests with 100% code coverage
• Written in TypeScript

Example

import EventStation from 'event-station';
 
class Spaceship extends EventStation {
    launch(destination) {
        this.emit('launch', destination);
    }
}
 
let Normandy = new Spaceship();
let Tempest = new Spaceship();
 
// Add two listeners via a listener map
let listeners = Normandy.on({
    launch: (dest) => console.log(`Spaceship launched! En route to ${dest}.`),
    dock: () => console.log('Spaceship docking.'),
});
 
// Attach the same listeners to Tempest that are on Normandy
listeners.addTo(Tempest);
 
// Launch Tempest when Normandy launches
Tempest.hear(Normandy, 'launch')
    .once((dest) => Tempest.launch(dest));
 
// Launch both ships to the Andromeda Galaxy
Normandy.launch('Messier 31');
 
// Stop listening to both ships
listeners.off();

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Installation

Node.js via Yarn

yarn add event-station

Node.js via npm

npm install event-station --save

SystemJS via jspm

jspm install npm:event-station

Web browser via Bower

bower install event-station

Web browser via <script>

<script src="dist/event-station.min.js"></script>
<script>new EventStation();</script> 

Downloads

Latest Release

• ES5 Build
  • Compatible with AMD and CommonJS module loaders
  • Assigns an EventStation global when not imported as a module
• ES6 Build
  • For use with an ES6 module loader
• jsnext Build
  • ES5 compatible objects as an ES module. See the Rollup Wiki for details.
• ES5 Minified Build
  • ES5 Build minified with UglifyJS 2
• Source Map
  • The source map for the minified build
• Definition
  • Generated TypeScript definition

Documentation

• Usage documentation
  • This guide will explain the general usage of Event-Station.
• Module definition
  • The associated definition file can be used as an API reference.

License

Copyright © 2016 Morris Allison III.
Released under the MIT license.

References

Event-Station was influenced by EventEmitter2 and Backbone.Events.