A cross-module, shared event bus.

This module is intended to give developers a way to share events between various modules. If you've broken your app into multiple modules, but you want to be able to share events between those moduels without having to pass an event object between each module at require time, CoolBus is for you!

This module's code sits on top of EventEmitter2

npm install coolbus

To use CoolBus, you just have to var coolbus = require('coolbus') at the top of your module and you'll be able to share events across each module requiring the same instance of the script. No need to pass objects back and forth at require time, the module handles all that for you!

var coolbus = require('coolbus');

var busA = coolbus.bus('busA');

busA.on('beep/1', function() {
  console.log('busA beeped a 1!');
});

busA.on('beep/2', function() {
  console.log('busA beeped a 2!');
});

busA.on('beep/*', function() {
  console.log('busA beeped!');
});

busA.emit('beep/1');
busA.emit('beep/2');

app.js

var coolbus = require('coolbus'),
  moduleA = require('./moduleA'),
  moduleB = require('./moduleB');

var busA = coolbus.bus('a'),
  busB = coolbus.bus('b');

busB.on('beep/*', function (from) {
  console.log('app.js heard bus "b" emit "beep/*" from ' + from);
});

console.log('app.js is emitting "beep/a" on bus "a".');
busA.emit('beep/a', 'app.js');

moduleA.js

var coolbus = require('coolbus');

var busA = coolbus.bus('a'),
  busB = coolbus.bus('b');

busA.on('beep/a', function (from) {
  console.log('moduleA.js heard bus "a" emit "beep/a" from ' + from + ' and is emitting "beep/b" on bus "b"');
  busB.emit('beep/b', 'moduleA.js')
});

moduleB.js

var coolbus = require('coolbus');

var busA = coolbus.bus('a'),
  busB = coolbus.bus('b');

busB.on('beep/b', function (from) {
  console.log('moduleB.js heard bus "b" emit "beep/b" from ' + from);
});

• bus(name[, options]) - This method will return or create the bus named name using options if provided. The returned bus is an instance of EventEmitter2
  • name - Required, string - This is the name of the event bus that you want to use. If it doesn't exist, it is created.
  • options - Optional, object - This an EventEmitter2 configuration object
    • Default options:
      • wildcard - true
      • delimiter - "/"
      • newListener - true
      • maxListeners - 15
• stop(name) - This method will stop the specified bus and remove it from operation in ALL of the modules interacting with it.
  • name - Required, string - This is the name of the bus you want to stop.
• stopAll() - This will stop ALL the busses using stop(name) above.
• list() - Returns an array of bus names.
• each(callback) - Iterates all busses returned via callback
  • callback - Required, function - Signature is function(bus)

• 0.0.1 (2014-11-20) Initial commit

• Image at the top is from http://www.theindyboys.com/cool-bus/