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custom-event-polyfill
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A polyfill for creating CustomEvents on IE9+ if the native implementation is missing.
A polyfill for creating CustomEvents on IE9+ if the native implementation is missing.
# using yarn
$ yarn add custom-event-polyfill
# using npm
$ npm install --save custom-event-polyfill
Just include this polyfill before using any code which creates a CustomEvent object, ideally as early as possible.
Refer to the CustomEvent documentation for details on how to use it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEvent
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A polyfill for creating CustomEvents on IE9+ if the native implementation is missing.
The npm package custom-event-polyfill receives a total of 299,095 weekly downloads. As such, custom-event-polyfill popularity was classified as popular.
We found that custom-event-polyfill 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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