It started as a fork of react-native-event-listeners. Now it is rewritten with Typescript and React Hooks support.

If you use React, check out the simple yet powerful hooks and state management at react.md

API

import GlobalEvent from 'js-events-listener'
// or import { GlobalEvent } from 'js-events-listener'
// or const GlobalEvent = require('js-events-listener');

static method	return value	description
addEventListener	string | boolean	return value is the id of the event listener or false on error
removeEventListener	boolean	true on success otherwise false
removeAllListeners	boolean	true on success otherwise false
emitEvent	void	no return value
on	string | boolean	shorthand for addEventListener
rm	boolean	shorthand for removeEventListener
rmAll	boolean	shorthand for removeAllListeners
emit	void	shorthand for emitEvent

Usage

• File a.js

  import GlobalEvent from 'js-events-listener'
  export const runThis = () => {
    GlobalEvent.emit('some-event-name', { someData: 123 })
  }

• File b.js

  import GlobalEvent from 'js-events-listener'
  export const setupListenerBeforeTheEventEmitted = () => {
    GlobalEvent.on('some-event-name', data => {
      console.log(data); // { someData: 123 }
    })
  }

• File c.js

  import GlobalEvent from 'js-events-listener'
  export const setupListenerBeforeTheEventEmitted = () => {
    const eventId = GlobalEvent.on('some-event-name', data => {
      console.log(data); // { someData: 123 }
    });

    // remove listener
    GlobalEvent.rm(eventId);
  }

• File d.ts

  import GlobalEvent from 'js-events-listener'

  type PayloadData {
    someData: number,
  }

  export const setupListenerBeforeTheEventEmitted = () => {
    const eventId = GlobalEvent.on<PayloadData>('some-event-name', data => {
      console.log(data); // { someData: 123 }, as PayloadData
    });

    // remove listener
    GlobalEvent.rm(eventId);
  }