pubsublite v0.0.1

pubsub (lite)

A lightweight publish/subscribe API for Node.js

Installation

npm install pubsublite

Documentation

Very simple API: if you want to "listen" to a topic, subscribe(). Anyone who wants to say something can publish(). Stop listening with unsubcribe()

var io = require("pubsublite");

var subscriber = io.subscribe("/anything", function(data){
    console.log("someone said", data);
});

io.publish("/anything", ["Hello, PubSub!"]);
io.unsubscribe(subscriber);
io.publish("/anything", ["I don't think anyone is listening this time. But it doesn't matter. That's the point."]);

publish() accepts a topic and an array of values to pass as ordered parameters to subscribe()d callbacks.

io.subscribe("/foo/bar/baz", function(a, b, c, d, e, f){
    console.log(arguments);
})

io.publish("/foo/bar/baz", [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]);

No context manipulation has been included. Use Function.prototype.bind to scope your callbacks:

var x = {
    y: 1
};

io.subscribe("/inc/xy", (function(){
    this.y++;
}).bind(x));

io.publish("/inc/xy", []);