widjet-disposables

Lightweight disposable pattern implementation.

Installation

npm install --save widjet-disposables

Usage

import {Disposable, CompositeDisposable, DisposableEvent} from 'widjet-disposables'

Disposable

The Disposable class is the most basic class of the package. It takes a function as the sole argument when created. This function will be called when the dispose method of the disposable is called.

function subscribeToSomEvent () {
  // subscribe to some event

  // ...

  // return a new disposable that will perform the unsubscription
  return new Disposable(() => {
    // unsubscribe from the events
  })
}

CompositeDisposable

The CompositeDisposable class is a Disposable that composes other disposables. It can be created with an array of disposables.

// creates a composite with an array of existing disposables
const composite = new CompositeDisposable(disposables)

const disposable = new Disposable(() => {})

// adds a new disposable in the composite
composite.add(disposable)

// removes the added disposable from the composite
composite.remove(disposable)

DisposableEvent

The DisposableEvent is a specific disposable aimed to ease the registration of event listener. It handles either objects with addEventListener/removeEventListener methods or objects with on/off methods.

// creating a disposable event automatically registers the event listener
const subscription = new DisposableEvent(source, 'event', (event) => {})

// disposing the subscription automatically unregisters the event listener
subscription.dispose()