boxed-emitter

Scoped events.

Install

$ npm install boxed-emitter

Require

var boxedEmitter = require('boxed-emitter');

Create a boxed emitter

var emitter = boxedEmitter();

Wrap an existing event emitter

var EE = require('events').EventEmitter;
var ee = new EE();
var emitter = boxedEmitter(ee);

You can create an event box

and give it a name:

var box = emitter.box('box-name');

And use that event box to emit scoped events:

// the following emits box-name::event

box.emit('event', 'arg1', 'arg2');  

// which you can listen to
box.on('event', function(a, b) {
  assert.equal(a, 'arg1');
  assert.equal(b, 'arg2');
});

You can create a smaller box inside a box:

var emitter = boxedEmitter();
var bigBox = emitter.box('bigbox');
var smallBox = bigBox.box('smallbox');

bigBox.on('smallbox::event', function(a, b, c) {
  t.equal(a, 'abc');
  t.equal(b, 'def');
  t.equal(c, undefined);
});

smallBox.emit('event', 'abc', 'def');

You can listen to wildcard events:

// first you have to enable wildcards for this:
box.wildcard(true);

box.on('*', function(eventType, eventArgs) {
  assert.equal(eventType, 'event');
  assert.deepEqual(eventArgs, ['abc', 'def']);
});

box.emit('event', 'abc', 'def');

And, as a regular event emitter:

You can also remove listeners:

box.off(eventType, listener);
box.removeListener(eventType, listener);

And remove all listeners:

box.removeAllListeners(eventType);