Emitter

A minimal library for implementing Event Emitter functionality.

Features

• Written in Typescript
• Has no dependencies (e.g. jquery)
• Lightweight, 1KB

Install

git

git clone https://github.com/arayutw/emitter.git
cd emitter
npm install
npm run build

npm

npm install @arayutw/emitter

CDN

Please find various build files (esm, cjs, umd).

• unpkg
• jsdelivr

Usage

load

ESM

import Emitter from "<pathto>/emitter.esm"

UMD

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@arayutw/emitter@latest/dist/scripts/emitter.js"></script>
<script>
  class A extends Emitter {}
</script>

extends

class A extends Emitter {
  constructor() {
    super();
  }
}

const a = new A;

on()

const handler = (event) => {
  // {target: a, type: "click", x: 12, y: 34}
  console.log(event);
}

a.on("click", handler, {
  once: false,
});

off()

a.off("click", handler);

emit()

a.emit("click", {
  x: 12,
  y: 34,
});

destroy

off("*") removes all events.

a.off("*");

Typescript

Development with Typescript is also convenient. Please define Generics (two arguments) when extending it.

| Argument | Example | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | A | The value of event.target. | | 2 | {eventName: {data1: number, data2: string}} | An object where the keys are event names and the values are objects containing event data. The key names "type" and "target" are reserved. |

import Emitter from "{pathto}/emitter/src/scripts/index"

// The key names "type" and "target" are reserved.
type Events = {
  eventName: {
    eventData1: any
    eventData2: any
  }
  click: {
    x: number
    y: number
  }
  mousedown: {
    // some data
  }
}

class A extends Emitter<A, Events> {
  constructor() {
    super();
  }
}

const a = new A;

a.on("click", (event) => console.log(event));

// OK
a.emit("click", {
  x: 1,
  y: 2,
});

// NG
a.emit("click2", {
  x: 1,
  y: 2,
});

// NG
a.emit("click", {
  x: "a",
  y: 2,
});