On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 3:48 PM, David Herron <da...@davidherron.com> wrote:
> While planning a new feature for my project (AkashaCMS) I realized that > EventEmitter's aren't the correct tool for one of the things I'm doing. > Are there alternatives to EventEmitter that fits the scenario I have. ... > a quick look through the NPM repository says there are some relavent > modules ... > > The issue is that I want to a) have my application proceed only when all > the event handlers finish running b) in some cases I need the event handler > to send a value > This is Promises :) https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping https://github.com/kriszyp/node-promise Rick > > EventEmitter.emit doesn't support a callback that's triggered when all > event handler invocations have finished. > > What that means is, for example, an array of functions to call each with a > known signature that includes a callback function. Then to use, for > example, async.eachSeries to invoke each in series... > > Here's a few relavent modules that look likely: > > https://npmjs.org/package/async-emit > https://npmjs.org/package/emit-and-callback > > http://underscorejs.org/ ?? > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
