Node(8) Events

How to create an event for the class:

You have to inherite fro events.EventEmitter to be able to emit and handle event

EventEmitter have on and emit method for handling events

on and addListener are basically the same

emitter.emit(event, [arg1], [arg2], [...])

Execute each of the listeners in order with the supplied arguments.

emitter.on(event, listener)

Adds a listener to the end of the listeners array for the specified event.

var util = require("util"); //util defines inherite
var events = require("events");

//create new class
var MyStream = function(){
	events.EventEmitter.call(this);
}

//inherites events.EventEmitter
util.inherits(MyStream, events.EventEmitter);

//write method emits data event
MyStream.prototype.write = function(data){
	this.emit( "data", data );
}

//create new instance
var stream = new MyStream();

console.log( stream instanceof events.EventEmitter);//true

stream.on( "data", function( data){
	//event listener
	console.log( 'Received data: "' + data + '"' );
})

stream.write("It works!"); //Received data: "It works!"