A simple implementation of an event bus in Javascript. More details here: https://medium.com/@soffritti.pierfrancesco/create-a-simple-event-bus-in-javascript-8aa0370b3969

eventBus.js

/**
 * subscriptions data format: 
 * { eventType: { id: callback } }
 */
const subscriptions = { }
const getNextUniqueId = getIdGenerator()

function subscribe(eventType, callback) {
    const id = getNextUniqueId()

    if(!subscriptions[eventType])
        subscriptions[eventType] = { }

    subscriptions[eventType][id] = callback

    return { 
        unsubscribe: () => {
            delete subscriptions[eventType][id]
            if(Object.keys(subscriptions[eventType]).length === 0) delete subscriptions[eventType]
        }
    }
}

function publish(eventType, arg) {
    if(!subscriptions[eventType])
        return

    Object.keys(subscriptions[eventType]).forEach(key => subscriptions[eventType][key](arg))
}

function getIdGenerator() {
    let lastId = 0
    
    return function getNextUniqueId() {
        lastId += 1
        return lastId
    }
}

module.exports = { publish, subscribe }