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Event listener orchestration
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# ensemble
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Event listener orchestration. Makes it easy to bulk unbind listeners that were
set withing a context. This is especially useful for unmounting listeners in
React's `componentWillUnmount` lifecycle event.
## Installation
```bash
$ npm i --save ensemble
```
## Overview
```js
var Emitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var ensemble = require('ensemble');
/**
* Wrap an event emitter.
*/
var emitter = ensemble(new Emitter);
/**
* Attach listeners to the emitter.
*/
emitter.on('foo', function() {});
/**
* Remove all listeners registered
* in the wrapper from the emitter.
*/
emitter.removeListeners()
```
## API
#### var emitter = ensemble(Emitter)
Wrap an event emitter in an ensemble object.
```js
var Emitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var ensemble = require('ensemble');
var myEmitter = ensemble(new Emitter);
```
#### .on(event, cb)
Attach an event listener to the wrapped emitter. Behaves identical to Node's
built in listener function.
```js
myEmitter.on('some_event', function(val) {
console.log(val);
});
```
#### .removeListeners()
Remove all listeners that were attached within this context to the emitter.
```js
myEmitter.removeListeners();
```
## License
[MIT](https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license) ©
[Yoshua Wuyts](yoshuawuyts.com)
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