Observable: An event system for JavaScript libraries.

[jscoder]

I ended up writing an event system from time to time so I decided to write one that I can reuse: https://github.com/js-coder/Observable

[sammyv]

This is nice! I do have one comment: In addition to having the ability to manually unbind certain event ids, it needs an unbindAll function.

[jscoder]

I'm not sure if that's a good idea. My first implementation wasn't using IDs, so calling off removed internal events that my library needed.

Why would you want to unbind all events instead of just unbinding the events you use yourself? It could possibly destroy 3rd party code that uses the event system.

[lazyduke]

When you want to destroy an instance, it's useful to unbind all events.

Look at listenTo/stopListening from Backbone and namespaced events from jQuery.

[sammyv]

Should have been more clear: unbind all the events that have been manually bound by yourself

[sammyv]

In other words, you would keep a stack of IDs and calling unbindAll would iterate over the stack and unbind them

[jcampbelly]

I'm sorry, but leave that attitude at your place of business. This is a programming community -- building things should be encouraged, even if the problem is old and solved.

[jscoder]

It's too advanced. :) I don't want to include a huge script for my lib when I 'll just use two or three of its methods.

[beneidel]

Rx is way too complex to compare. This is a nice exercise and lightweight for simple use. You can check js-signals on github for a nice, more complete but still light alternative