@sapphire/event-iterator

Turns event emitter events into async iterators.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
  • Basic Usage
• Buy us some doughnuts
• Contributors

Description

There is often a need to have async iterators with fine control, timeouts, limits, filter, and so on, this package exists to satisfy those needs. By implementing an async iterator which can be used with for await...of loops.

Features

• Written in TypeScript
• Bundled with esbuild so it can be used in NodeJS and browsers
• Offers CommonJS, ESM and UMD bundles
• Fully tested

Installation

You can use the following command to install this package, or replace npm install with your package manager of choice.

npm install @sapphire/event-iterator

Usage

Note: While this section uses require, the imports match 1:1 with ESM imports. For example const { EventIterator } = require('@sapphire/event-iterator') equals import { EventIterator } from '@sapphire/event-iterator'.

Basic Usage

// Import the EventIterator class
const { EventIterator } = require('@sapphire/event-iterator');

// Define an event iterator with a limit of 2 entries
const iterator = new EventIterator(emitter, 'message', { limit: 2 });

emitter.emit('message', { id: 'foo' });
emitter.emit('message', { id: 'bar' });
emitter.emit('message', { id: 'baz' });

for await (const message of iterator) {
	console.log(message);
	// Logs: { id: 'foo' }
	// Logs: { id: 'bar' }
}

// The iterator ended at second item, { id: 'baz' } is not collected due to the specified limit.

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Contributors

Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.

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