ts-ev

ts-ev is a typed event emitter that provides removal protection, filtering, and inheritance.

Unlike other typed event emitters, ts-ev includes a mechanism for arbitrarily deep extensions of its Emitter class such that each derived class has full access to its own events.

ts-ev has zero imports, so it should be usable in any context.

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Features

Execution Order Guarantees:

• Ensures that .emit() operates on the currently registered listeners.
  • In other words, listener changes during the emit loop do not effect the loop.
• Listeners are executed in their order of addition.
  • Listeners may be prepended.
• Matches the behavior of EventEmitter from "events".

Protection:

• .off() will not remove the listener unless it is explicitly specified.

Filtering:

• Supply a type assertion to narrow down the type expected by a listener.
• Listeners are not called unless their associated filter passes.
• Requires the Data tparam to be manually specified.
  • As the Data tparam defines the listener parameters type, filtering changes the type expected by a given listener.

Template Parameters

export class Emitter<
  BaseEvents    extends { [event: string]: (...args: any[]) => any },
  DerivedEvents extends { [event: string]: (...args: any[]) => any } = {},
> { ... }

BaseEvents:

• Maps any listeners that are used directly by the top-level emitter to an event string.

DerivedEvents:

• Maps any listeners that are not statically known by the base class to an event string.
  • These events are only available to derived classes.
• To enable event inheritance, base classes must forward a template argument that defines the derived event listeners.
  • This tparam should prohibit derivation of the base events; see the example.

public [on|prependOn|once|prependOnce]<
  Ev extends keyof BaseEvents | keyof DerivedEvents,
  Data extends EvData<BaseEvents, DerivedEvents, Ev> = EvData<BaseEvents, DerivedEvents, Ev>
> { ... }

Ev:

• Represents the event passed to the function.

Data:

• Represents the data received by an event listener (parameters array).
  • Set by default to the corresponding BaseEvents or DerivedEvents value.
  • Note: Must be manually specified when using filters.
    • This ensures consistency between the filter type assertion and the listener parameters type.

Usage

import { Emitter } from "ts-ev";

class Foo<
  DerivedEvents extends Emitter.Events.Except<"baseEv1" | "baseEv2">
> extends Emitter<
  {
    baseEv1: (requires: number, these: string, args: boolean) => any;
    baseEv2: () => any;
  },
  DerivedEvents
> {
  constructor() {
    super();
    setTimeout(() => this.emit("baseEv1", 1, "foo", true), 100);
    setTimeout(() => this.emit("baseEv2"), 1000);

    // this.emit("derivedEv")    // ts error
    // this.emit("anythingElse") // ts error
  }
}

const foo = new Foo();

// standard on/once/off functionality

await foo.once("baseEv2");
const l = () => console.log("received");
foo.on("baseEv2", l);
foo.off("baseEv2", l);
// or foo.off("baseEv2");
// or foo.off();

// protection

foo.on("baseEv2", l, { protect: true });
foo.off("baseEv2");    // does not remove the above listener
foo.off();             // does not remove the above listener
foo.off("baseEv2", l); // OK

// filtering

// must specify the expected type (extends original type)
foo.on<"baseEv1", [number, "foo", boolean]>(
  "baseEv1",
  (a, b, c) => console.log(a, b, c), // b is type "foo" (instead of type "string")
  {
    protect: true,
    filter: (data: [number, string, boolean]): data is [number, "foo", boolean] =>
      data[1] === "foo",
  }
);

// inheritance

class Bar extends Foo<{
  derivedEv: (add: "more", events: "to", the: "emitter") => any;
}> {
  constructor() {
    super();

    // can operate on base class events
    setTimeout(() => this.emit("baseEv1", 1, "foo", true), 100);
    // can operate on events provided to Foo via OtherEvents
    setTimeout(() => this.emit("derivedEv", "more", "to", "emitter"), 200);
  }
}

const bar = new Bar();
bar.on("baseEv2", () => console.log("receives base class events!"));
bar.on("derivedEv", () => console.log("receives derived class events!"));

Changelog

0.2.0 (2021-09-15)

| Changes since 0.1.0 | Release Notes | README | | --- | --- | --- |

| Source Code (zip) | Source Code (tar.gz) | | --- | --- |

Changed

• Minor changes to the README.

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