The document discusses using Node.js events and the EventEmitter class. It shows examples of creating EventEmitters, adding event listeners, emitting events, checking the number of listeners, and emitting events to all listeners. It also shows an example of creating a class that inherits from EventEmitter to add event-driven functionality for reading a file.

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var events = require("events"),
emitter = new events.EventEmitter(),
username = "Eyal",
password = "Vardi";
// an event listener
emitter.on("userAdded", function (username, password) {
console.log("Added user " + username);
});
// Emit an event
emitter.emit("userAdded", username, password);

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var events = require("events");
var emitter = new events.EventEmitter();
emitter.once("foo", function () {
console.log("In foo handler");
});
emitter.emit("foo");
emitter.emit("foo");

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var events = require("events");
var EventEmitter = events.EventEmitter;
var emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.on("foo", function () { });
emitter.on("foo", function () { });
console.log( EventEmitter.listenerCount(emitter, "foo") );

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var events = require("events");
var EventEmitter = events.EventEmitter;
var emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.on("foo", function (){ console.log("In foo handler"); });
emitter.listeners("foo").forEach(function (handler) {
handler();
});

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var events = require("events");
var emitter = new events.EventEmitter();
emitter.on( "newListener" , function (eventName, listener) {
console.log("Added listener for " + eventName + " events");
});
emitter.on("foo", function () { });

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var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter;
var util = require("util");
function UserEventEmitter() {
EventEmitter.call(this);
this.addUser = function (username, password) {
// add the user
// then emit an event
this.emit("userAdded", username, password);
};
};
util.inherits(UserEventEmitter, EventEmitter);

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function SuperType(name){
this.name = name;
this.colors = ['red', 'blue', 'green'];
}
SuperType.prototype.sayName = function(){ alert(this.name); };
function SubType(name, age){
SuperType.call(this, name);
this.age = age;
}
SubType.prototype = Object.create(SuperType.prototype);
SubType.prototype.sayAge = function(){
alert(this.age);
};

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val getSuperValue
[prototype]
subVal
__proto__
val
__proto__
[prototype]
subVal

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function SuperType(name){
this.name = name;
this.colors = ['red', 'blue', 'green'];
}
SuperType.prototype.sayName = function(){ return this.name; };
function SubType(name, age){
SuperType.call(this, name);
this.age = age;
}
SubType.prototype = Object.create(SuperType.prototype);
SubType.prototype.constructor = SubType;
SubType.prototype.sayAge = function(){
alert(this.age);
};
SubType.prototype.sayName = function(){
return SuperType.prototype.sayName.call(this) + "!!";
};
override
fix constructor

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var user = new UserEventEmitter();
var username = "colin";
var password = "password";
user.on("userAdded", function (username, password) {
console.log("Added user " + username);
});
user.addUser(username, password)
console.log(user instanceof EventEmitter);

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var fs = require("fs");
var fileName = "foo.txt";
fs.exists(fileName, function (exists) {
if (exists) { fs.stat(fileName, function (error, stats) {
if (error) { throw error; }
if (stats.isFile()) {
fs.readFile(fileName, "utf8", function (error, data) {
if (error) { throw error; }
console.log(data);
});
}
});
}
});

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var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter;
var util = require("util");
var fs = require("fs");
function FileReader(fileName) {
var _self = this;
EventEmitter.call(_self);
_self.on("stats", function() {
fs.stat(fileName, function(error, stats) {
if (!error && stats.isFile()) {
_self.emit("read");
}
});
});
_self.on("read", function() {
fs.readFile(fileName, "utf8", function(error, data) {
if (!error && data) { console.log(data); }
});
});
fs.exists(fileName, function(exists) {
if (exists) { _self.emit("stats"); }
});
}
util.inherits(FileReader, EventEmitter);
var reader = new FileReader("foo.txt");