EventEmitter
NodeJS like EventEmitter. See also NodeJS events documentation
To add event emitting ability to any object:
var myObject = {},
//compatibility EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
EventEmitter = require('events');
// add EventEmitter to myObject
EventEmitter.call(myObject);
var util = require('util');
util._extend(myObject, EventEmitter.prototype);
In case object created via constructor function
function MyObject() {
EventEmitter.call(this);
}
util.inherits(MyObject, EventEmitter);
var myObject = new MyObject();
Usage:
myObject.on('myEvent', function(num, str){console.log(num, str) });
myObject.emit('myEvent', 1, 'two'); // output: 1 two