What is event emitter for?

[…] EventEmitter is really an Angular abstraction, and should be used pretty much only for emitting custom Events in components . Otherwise, just use Rx as if it was any other library. This is stated really clear in EventEmitter’s documentation. Use by directives and components to emit custom Events.

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Why is event emitter used?

js allows us to create and handle custom events easily by using events module. Event module includes EventEmitter class which can be used to raise and handle custom events. The following example demonstrates EventEmitter class for raising and handling a custom event.

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What is event and event emitter?

It adds the listener at the end of the listener’s array for the specified event . Multiple calls to the same event and listener will add the listener multiple times and correspondingly fire multiple times. Both functions return emitter, so calls can be chained. Emitting events: Every event is named event in nodejs.

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Should I use event emitter?

Event emitters and listeners are crucial to NodeJS development, and many other programming languages development. They are very useful when you have some function that needs to execute “whenever this other thing happens”, without requiring that function to finish or even work for that matter .

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