publish subscribe vanilla JS

by Himanshu Joshi

JavaScript

var pubSub = {};
(function(q) {

  var messages = [];

  q.subscribe = function(message, fn) {
    if (!messages[message]) {
      messages[message] = [];
    }
    messages[message].push(fn);
  }

  q.publish = function(message) {
    /* fetch all the subscribers and execute*/
    if (!messages[message]) {
      return false;
    } else {
      for (var message in messages) {
        for (var idx = 0; idx < messages[message].length; idx++) {
          if (messages[message][idx])
            messages[message][idx]();
        }
      }
    }
  }
})(pubSub);

pubSub.subscribe("event-A", function() {
  console.log('this is A');
});

pubSub.subscribe("event-A", function() {
  console.log('booyeah A');
});

pubSub.publish("A"); //executes the methods.