Source: node-d3-dispatch Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), node-tape , nodejs, pkg-js-tools, rollup, node-rollup-plugin-terser Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Homepage: https://d3js.org/d3-dispatch/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-d3-dispatch.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-d3-dispatch Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-d3-dispatch Architecture: all Depends: nodejs, ${misc:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign 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.