0.1.0 • Published 5 years ago
asynchronous-emitter v0.1.0
Asynchronous Event Emitter
Nodejs Events runs in synchronous mode. This means that event listeners that are async
cannot be await
ed. This package extends the EventEmitter
class and enables the promises to chain into the emit
event.
const AsyncEventEmitter = require('asynchronous-emitter');
const events = new AsyncEventEmitter();
// it's the same core EventEmitter apis and behavior
events.on('event', () => {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
setTimeout(() => {
console.log('event will resolve');
resolve();
}, 100);
});
});
// but it await events
async function test() {
await events.emit('event');
console.log('event awaited');
}
test();
0.1.0
5 years ago