react-birch-event-emitter - A Simple Event Library

Features include:

• Unlike on, off, addListener, removeListener etc. EventEmitter event subscriptions return a Disposable object with dispose() method to unsubscribe from event.
• Above feature allows you to group event subscriptions using DisposablesComposite and dispose them all with one call, i.e DisposableComposite#dispose()
• Listeners voice matters!! You can now dispatch an event using EventEmitter#dispatchWithReturn where each listener's return value can be accessed from returned array.

The Last feature can come in handy like in example below:

// Here some listeners are subscribed to `onWillCommit` event, but we can allow listeners to disagree if they deem so
commitChange(change) {
    // ...

    // here we'll notify all `will-commit` listeners, but if one of them returns false, we'll abort the `commit` operation
    if (this.eventEmitter.dispatchWithReturn('will-commit', this.currentValue).some((canCommit) => canCommit === false)) {
        return
    }

    // Proceed with commit opertaion

    // ...
}

Usage

npm i eventEmitter

// Textbuffer.ts (I highly recommend TypeScript as you can get a huge performance boost by using `enum`s instead of strings as event identifiers)

import { EventEmitter } from 'eventEmitter'
// ...

enum TextBufferEvent {
    WillSave,
    WillPaste,
}

class TextBuffer implements IDisposable {
    private eventEmitter = new EventEmitter<TextBufferEvent>()
    // ...

    public onWillPaste(callback: (textFragment: TextFragment, pos: Position) => void): IDiposable {
        return this.eventEmitter.on(TextBufferEvent.Will, callback)
    }

    public onWillSave(callback: () => void): IDiposable {
        return this.eventEmitter.on(TextBufferEvent.WillSave, callback)
    }

    // ...

    private _pasteTextFragment(textFragment: TextFragment, pos: Position): boolean {
        // ...
        this.eventEmitter.dispatch(TextBufferEvent.WillPaste, textFragment, pos) // dispatch with args
        // ...
    }

    private _trySave(): boolean {
        // ...
        this.eventEmitter.dispatch(TextBufferEvent.WillSave) // dispatch without args
        // ...
    }
}

Full API can be found in index.d.ts

License

MIT