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A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
checked-emitter
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A wrapper for fbemitter that requires event types to be registered before use.
An EventEmitter implementation that wraps fbemitter with checks to ensure that event types are always registered before use.
var CheckedEmitter = require('checked-emitter');
var e = new CheckedEmitter();
e.registerEvent('propchange', 'propName', 'oldValue', 'newValue');
e.addListener('propchange', function(name, oldValue, newValue) {
...
});
e.emit('propchange', 'count', 3, 4);
The API is the same as fbemitter.EventEmitter, with the following additions:
registerEvent(eventType, ...params)Register a new event to be emitted. eventType is a String, params are
parameter names for the event.
registerEvents(obj)Shorthand for registering multiple events. obj is a mapping {String : Array}
of event types to parameter names.
events()Return an Array of objects representing the events that have been registered on this emitter.
FAQs
A wrapper for fbemitter that requires event types to be registered before use.
The npm package checked-emitter receives a total of 39 weekly downloads. As such, checked-emitter popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that checked-emitter demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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