Source: node-d3-dispatch Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11) , nodejs , node-tape , node-package-preamble , rollup , uglifyjs Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Homepage: https://d3js.org/d3-dispatch/ Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-d3-dispatch.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-javascript/node-d3-dispatch.git Package: node-d3-dispatch Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: Register named callbacks and call them with arguments Dispatching is a convenient mechanism for separating concerns with loosely-coupled code: register named callbacks and then call them with arbitrary arguments. A variety of D3 components, such as d3-request, use this mechanism to emit events to listeners. Think of this like Node’s EventEmitter, except every listener has a well-defined name so it’s easy to remove or replace them. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.