doc: add example about emitter.emit in events documentation

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/28374
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yongsheng Zhang <zyszys98@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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Felipe Duitama 2019-06-21 17:37:37 -05:00 committed by Rich Trott
parent 9083a676dd
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@ -307,6 +307,40 @@ to each.
Returns `true` if the event had listeners, `false` otherwise.
```js
const EventEmitter = require('events');
const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();
// First listener
myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
});
// Second listener
myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
});
// Third listener
myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
const parameters = args.join(', ');
console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
});
console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));
myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
// Prints:
// [
// [Function: firstListener],
// [Function: secondListener],
// [Function: thirdListener]
// ]
// Helloooo! first listener
// event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
// event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener
```
### emitter.eventNames()
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added: v6.0.0