vue-simple-events

Yet another event management plugin, but WITHOUT Vue instance

About

This is just a simple wrapper around js-simple-events that helps to manage events in a simple way without creating a Vue instance. It also supports TypeScript!

And it's really light - ~1kb in size!

Methods

Method | Params | Description -------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- vm.$events.emit | event, payload | Emit the event with the given payload. vm.$events.$emit | event, payload | Alias for emit vm.$events.fire | event, payload | Alias for emit vm.$events.on | event, callback | Listen for the event with the given callback. vm.$events.$on | event, callback | Alias for on vm.$events.listen | event, callback | Alias for on vm.$events.once | event, callback | Listen for the event once, after handling - remove the listener. vm.$events.$once | event, callback | Alias for $once vm.$events.off | event, callback | Remove event listener(s) for the event. vm.$events.$off | event, callback | Alias for off vm.$events.remove | event, callback | Alias for off

Examples

// Import and initialize
import Vue from 'vue'
import EventManager from 'vue-simple-events'

Vue.use(EventManager)

/// Component 1

methods: {
  eventHandler(payload) {
    console.log('Yay, events work!', payload);
  }
},
created() {
  this.$events.on('test', this.eventHandler);
  this.$events.once('test', () => console.log('This will be called just once!'));
},
beforeDestroy() {
  this.$events.off('test', this.eventHandler);
}

/// Component 2

created() {
  // Emit events
  this.$events.emit('test', 'Hello!');
  // Logs:
  // -> Yay, events work! Hello!
  // -> This will be called just once!

  this.$events.emit('test', 'Hello!');
  // Logs:
  // -> Yay, events work! Hello!
  // (The 'once' handler isn't fired)
}

Demo

webpack 4 application