tiny-events

A very tiny (400b) EventEmitter implementation for client- and server-side code.

installation

npm install --save tiny-events

usage

instantiate the object directly..

// import the module
var EventEmitter = require('tiny-events').EventEmitter;
 
// instantiate the object
var events = new EventEmitter();
 
// listen to 'foo' events
events.on('foo', function (data) {
    console.log('foo occured!');
});
 
// emit a 'foo' event
events.emit('foo');
 
// emit a 'foo' event with some data
events.emit('foo', 'hello world');
 
// remove all foo event listeners
events.off('foo');

... or subclass it.

var utils = require('utils');
var EventEmitter = require('tiny-events').EventEmitter;
 
function MyClass() {
    EventEmitter.call(this);
}
 
util.inherits(MyClass, EventEmitter);

API

• on(type: string, listener: Function): EventEmitter
• once(type: string, listener: Function): EventEmitter
• off(type: string, listener?: Function): EventEmitter
• emit(type: string, ...args: any[]): EventEmitter