Yet another EventEmitter?!
Yes indeed, another one! But there’s good reason for that: this one has some extra features that node.js’s EventEmitter has not, while being completely API compatible! Let’s look at the differences.
handleEvent objects
An often overlooked feature of the browser’s addEventListener, is that it can take in objects as listeners. When the event is fired, it calls this object’s handleEvent method, setting this to the object. This makes it way easier to keep track of context and variables.
Wildcards & regular expressions
The event strings you pass to all the methods are converted to RegExps under the hood (* is converted to .*). This means you can use special syntax, like * to denote anything or (something|else) to choose between multiple options, in the event strings you pass to all the methods.
Scopes
A result of these wildcards is that working with scopes, which are usually separated by :, gets really easy:
ee.on("scope:*", listener);
This will listen for any event that starts with scope:. Now, events like scope:event or scope:other, will trigger the listener.
Try it out!
EventEmitter is API compatible with the most popular EventEmitter implementations out there, and works perfectly on the server and in the browser. So go ahead and give it a try!