If you emit a callback on an event then its bidirectional and not an event.

By all means make a new thing but don't call it an eventemitter.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Brian Link <[email protected]> wrote:

> > The most important thing is that event emitters is a single direction
> communication. If you want bidirectional communication use a duplex stream
> or functions
>
> This is all that is happening here.  We have an array of functions that
> get called either in parallel or series.  Its convenient that the
> EventEmitter object already has support for storing arrays of functions
> associated with a string key.  So.. I'm using it :)
>
>
> On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:21:58 PM UTC-5, Brian Link wrote:
>>
>> Over the past few months I've been using this little utility module in my
>> applications.  Thought I would share it here now that it is stable and
>> well-documented.
>>
>> https://github.com/cpsubrian/**node-eventflow<https://github.com/cpsubrian/node-eventflow>
>>
>> EventFlow exposes some of the great flow-control utility provided by
>> caolan's async module in the form of events.  Basically, you'll be able to
>> 'register' asynchronous (or sync, or a mix) handlers via the `emitter.on()`
>> syntax you are already familiar with.  Then you can fire them with
>> `emitter.series()`, `emitter.parallel()`, `emitter.waterfall()`, etc.
>>
>> The docs should explain it all but I'm happy to answer any questions
>> here.  Its got tests, travis-ci peace-of-mind, and has been in production
>> on several apps for a few months.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
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