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Make an eventing system mix-in that adds .trigger() and .on() to any input object.
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/* | |
Example usage: | |
var obj = mixEvents({ name: 'Alice', age: 30 }); | |
obj.on('ageChange', function(){ // On takes an event name and a callback function | |
console.log('Age changed'); | |
}); | |
obj.age++; | |
obj.trigger('ageChange'); // This should call our callback! Should log 'age changed'. | |
*/ | |
var mixEvents = function(obj) { | |
var events = {}; | |
obj.trigger = function (event) { | |
if(!events[event]) { | |
return; | |
} | |
else { | |
var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments).slice(1); | |
events[event].forEach(function(callback){ | |
!args.length ? callback() : callback.apply(null, args) | |
}) | |
} | |
}; | |
// Register a callback to be fired on this event. | |
obj.on = function (event, callback) { | |
!events[event] ? events[event] = [callback] : events[event].push(callback) | |
}; | |
return obj; | |
}; | |
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