Not depend on events?

[olofd]

In 3.1.0 the dependency of EE => events was introduced. That means this library does no longer work on the web.

[RobTS]

Nor does it work on React Native any more

[olofd]

@sindresorhus Can we use this: https://github.com/primus/eventemitter3 or something instead?

[sindresorhus]

I think Webpack shims the events module (?)

[olofd]

React Native uses Metro, not Webpack. And why would we need to shim a package to make an easy module like this to be platform independent?

I think the best solution is to have your own event-emitter included if you want to use one in the package and not have dependencies for simple stuff like this. But that's my opinion.

[sindresorhus]

@olofd I would usually disagree, as my main target is Node.js. Bundlers enable support for browsers, etc. But I'm willing to make an exception here as this module is fairly popular for React Native and browser usage.

PR welcome to use https://github.com/primus/eventemitter3 and update to docs to reflect that fact.

[vladimiry]

I think Webpack shims the events module (?)

• Webpack is not the only bundler.
• Webpack doesn't always ship the events shim to the bundle. It won't do this for example in the case of electron-renderer target using.
• Webpack v5 is going to completely stop shipping Node.js polyfills.

[rexxars]

Opened #58 to address this by replacing events with eventemitter3