8.7 KiB
event-target-shim
An implementation of WHATWG EventTarget interface, plus few extensions.
- This provides
EventTarget
constructor that can inherit for your custom object. - This provides an utility that defines properties of attribute listeners (e.g.
obj.onclick
).
import {EventTarget, defineEventAttribute} from "event-target-shim"
class Foo extends EventTarget {
// ...
}
// Define `foo.onhello` property.
defineEventAttribute(Foo.prototype, "hello")
// Use
const foo = new Foo()
foo.addEventListener("hello", e => console.log("hello", e))
foo.onhello = e => console.log("onhello:", e)
foo.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("hello"))
💿 Installation
Use npm to install then use a bundler.
npm install event-target-shim
Or download from dist
directory.
- dist/event-target-shim.mjs ... ES modules version.
- dist/event-target-shim.js ... Common JS version.
- dist/event-target-shim.umd.js ... UMD (Universal Module Definition) version. This is transpiled by Babel for IE 11.
📖 Usage
import {EventTarget, defineEventAttribute} from "event-target-shim"
// or
const {EventTarget, defineEventAttribute} = require("event-target-shim")
// or UMD version defines a global variable:
const {EventTarget, defineEventAttribute} = window.EventTargetShim
EventTarget
eventTarget.addEventListener(type, callback, options)
Register an event listener.
type
is a string. This is the event name to register.callback
is a function. This is the event listener to register.options
is a boolean or an object{ capture?: boolean, passive?: boolean, once?: boolean }
. If this is a boolean, it's same meaning as{ capture: options }
.capture
is the flag to register the event listener for capture phase.passive
is the flag to ignoreevent.preventDefault()
method in the event listener.once
is the flag to remove the event listener automatically after the first call.
eventTarget.removeEventListener(type, callback, options)
Unregister an event listener.
type
is a string. This is the event name to unregister.callback
is a function. This is the event listener to unregister.options
is a boolean or an object{ capture?: boolean }
. If this is a boolean, it's same meaning as{ capture: options }
.capture
is the flag to register the event listener for capture phase.
eventTarget.dispatchEvent(event)
Dispatch an event.
event
is a Event object or an object{ type: string, [key: string]: any }
. The latter is non-standard but useful. In both cases, listeners receive the event as implementing Event interface.
defineEventAttribute(proto, type)
Define an event attribute (e.g. onclick
) to proto
. This is non-standard.
proto
is an object (assuming it's a prototype object). This function defines a getter/setter pair for the event attribute.type
is a string. This is the event name to define.
For example:
class AbortSignal extends EventTarget {
constructor() {
this.aborted = false
}
}
// Define `onabort` property.
defineEventAttribute(AbortSignal.prototype, "abort")
EventTarget(types)
Define a custom EventTarget
class with event attributes. This is non-standard.
types
is a string or an array of strings. This is the event name to define.
For example:
// This has `onabort` property.
class AbortSignal extends EventTarget("abort") {
constructor() {
this.aborted = false
}
}
📚 Examples
ES2015 and later
const {EventTarget, defineEventAttribute} = EventTargetShim
// Define a derived class.
class Foo extends EventTarget {
// ...
}
// Define `foo.onhello` property.
defineEventAttribute(Foo.prototype, "hello")
// Register event listeners.
const foo = new Foo()
foo.addEventListener("hello", (e) => {
console.log("hello", e)
})
foo.onhello = (e) => {
console.log("onhello", e)
}
// Dispatching events
foo.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("hello", { detail: "detail" }))
Typescript
import { EventTarget, defineEventAttribute } from "event-target-shim";
// Define events
type FooEvents = {
hello: CustomEvent
}
type FooEventAttributes = {
onhello: CustomEvent
}
// Define a derived class.
class Foo extends EventTarget<FooEvents, FooEventAttributes> {
// ...
}
// Define `foo.onhello` property's implementation.
defineEventAttribute(Foo.prototype, "hello")
// Register event listeners.
const foo = new Foo()
foo.addEventListener("hello", (e) => {
console.log("hello", e.detail)
})
foo.onhello = (e) => {
console.log("onhello", e.detail)
}
// Dispatching events
foo.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("hello", { detail: "detail" }))
Unfortunately, both FooEvents
and FooEventAttributes
are needed because TypeScript doesn't allow the mutation of string literal types. If TypeScript allowed us to compute "onhello"
from "hello"
in types, FooEventAttributes
will be optional.
This EventTarget
type is compatible with EventTarget
interface of lib.dom.d.ts
.
To disallow unknown events
By default, methods such as addEventListener
accept unknown events. You can disallow unknown events by the third type parameter "strict"
.
type FooEvents = {
hello: CustomEvent
}
class Foo extends EventTarget<FooEvents, {}, "strict"> {
// ...
}
// OK because `hello` is defined in FooEvents.
foo.addEventListener("hello", (e) => {
})
// Error because `unknown` is not defined in FooEvents.
foo.addEventListener("unknown", (e) => {
})
However, if you use "strict"
parameter, it loses compatibility with EventTarget
interface of lib.dom.d.ts
.
To infer the type of dispatchEvent()
method
TypeScript cannot infer the event type of dispatchEvent()
method properly from the argument in most cases. You can improve this behavior with the following steps:
- Use the third type parameter
"strict"
. This prevents inferring todispatchEvent<string>()
. - Make the
type
property of event definitions stricter.
type FooEvents = {
hello: CustomEvent & { type: "hello" }
hey: Event & { type: "hey" }
}
class Foo extends EventTarget<FooEvents, {}, "strict"> {
// ...
}
// Error because `detail` property is lacking.
foo.dispatchEvent({ type: "hello" })
ES5
// Define a derived class.
function Foo() {
EventTarget.call(this)
}
Foo.prototype = Object.create(EventTarget.prototype, {
constructor: { value: Foo, configurable: true, writable: true }
// ...
})
// Define `foo.onhello` property.
defineEventAttribute(Foo.prototype, "hello")
// Register event listeners.
var foo = new Foo()
foo.addEventListener("hello", function(e) {
console.log("hello", e)
})
foo.onhello = function(e) {
console.log("onhello", e)
}
// Dispatching events
function isSupportEventConstrucor() { // IE does not support.
try {
new CusomEvent("hello")
return true
} catch (_err) {
return false
}
}
if (isSupportEventConstrucor()) {
foo.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent("hello", { detail: "detail" }))
} else {
var e = document.createEvent("CustomEvent")
e.initCustomEvent("hello", false, false, "detail")
foo.dispatchEvent(e)
}
📰 Changelog
- See GitHub releases.
🍻 Contributing
Contributing is welcome ❤️
Please use GitHub issues/PRs.
Development tools
npm install
installs dependencies for development.npm test
runs tests and measures code coverage.npm run clean
removes temporary files of tests.npm run coverage
opens code coverage of the previous test with your default browser.npm run lint
runs ESLint.npm run build
generatesdist
codes.npm run watch
runs tests on each file change.