Evented JavaScript for the browser
This script adds the EventEmitter class to your browser. It has the same API and functionality as the NodeJS implementation.
So you can listen for and emit events from what ever objects you choose.
It works exactly the same as the NodeJS version so head over to the NodeJS docs for the details.
This is simple, just include the script and create a new instance of the EventEmitter class like so.
var myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
Now the myEmitter object will have methods such as emit and addListener.
This can be done in a few ways. You can use the addListener method or it's alias, the on method.
This example uses the addListener method but you can swap it for on and it will make no difference.
myEmitter.addListener('message', show);
This is assuming you have a function called show already defined. It assigns the show function to the message event.
You can also use the once method to add a listener that will only be fired once. The syntax is the same as the previous methods.
You can use wildcards within name spaced events like so.
myEmitter.addListener('foo.*.bar', show);
This will then be fired every time an event that begins with foo. and ends with .bar is emitted.
You can retrieve an array of listeners for a specified event with the listeners method.
This will return an array of all listeners associated with the message event.
myEmitter.listeners('message');
To remove a listener, use the removeListener method with the same arguments as you used to set it.
myEmitter.removeListener('message', show);
You can also remove all listeners for a specified event, like so.
myEmitter.removeAllListeners('message');
There is no hard limit as such, but after a certain amount a message will be posted to the console saying that you have exceeded the limit.
You can still add more, it just helps you to find bugs where it may be looping and adding too many listeners.
The default limit is 10 listeners per event.
It does not restrict functionality at all.
You can change the limit with the setMaxListeners method. For instance, this would set the limit to 20.
myEmitter.setMaxListeners(20);
Setting it to 0 will disable this feature.
To emit an event to all the registered listeners you have to use the emit method.
This would emit the message event and pass two arguments to the listeners.
myEmitter.emit('message', 'arg1', 'arg2');
You can have as many arguments as you want.
Oliver Caldwell, a 17 year old web developer from Essex, England.
Copyright (C) 2011 Oliver Caldwell
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