good-listener

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A more versatile way of adding & removing event listeners.

good listener

Install

You can get it on npm.

  1. npm install good-listener --save

Or bower, too.

  1. bower install good-listener --save

If you’re not into package management, just download a ZIP file.

Setup

Node (Browserify)
  1. var listen = require('good-listener');
Browser (Standalone)
  1. <script src="dist/good-listener.js"></script>

Usage

Add an event listener

By passing a string selector (see full demo).

  1. listen('.btn', 'click', function(e) {
  2. console.log(e);
  3. });

Or by passing a HTML element (see full demo).

  1. var logo = document.getElementById('logo');
  2. listen(logo, 'click', function(e) {
  3. console.log(e);
  4. });

Or by passing a list of HTML elements (see full demo).

  1. var anchors = document.querySelectorAll('a');
  2. listen(anchors, 'click', function(e) {
  3. console.log(e);
  4. });

Remove an event listener

By calling the destroy function that returned from previous operation (see full demo).

  1. var listener = listen('.btn', 'click', function(e) {
  2. console.log(e);
  3. });
  4. listener.destroy();

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License

MIT License © Zeno Rocha