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---
title: createEventHub
tags: browser,event,advanced
---
Creates a pub/sub ([publishsubscribe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern)) event hub with `emit`, `on`, and `off` methods.
- Use `Object.create(null)` to create an empty `hub` object that does not inherit properties from `Object.prototype`.
- For `emit`, resolve the array of handlers based on the `event` argument and then run each one with `Array.prototype.forEach()` by passing in the data as an argument.
- For `on`, create an array for the event if it does not yet exist, then use `Array.prototype.push()` to add the handler
- to the array.
- For `off`, use `Array.prototype.findIndex()` to find the index of the handler in the event array and remove it using `Array.prototype.splice()`.
```js
const createEventHub = () => ({
hub: Object.create(null),
emit(event, data) {
(this.hub[event] || []).forEach(handler => handler(data));
},
on(event, handler) {
if (!this.hub[event]) this.hub[event] = [];
this.hub[event].push(handler);
},
off(event, handler) {
const i = (this.hub[event] || []).findIndex(h => h === handler);
if (i > -1) this.hub[event].splice(i, 1);
if (this.hub[event].length === 0) delete this.hub[event];
}
});
```
```js
const handler = data => console.log(data);
const hub = createEventHub();
let increment = 0;
// Subscribe: listen for different types of events
hub.on('message', handler);
hub.on('message', () => console.log('Message event fired'));
hub.on('increment', () => increment++);
// Publish: emit events to invoke all handlers subscribed to them, passing the data to them as an argument
hub.emit('message', 'hello world'); // logs 'hello world' and 'Message event fired'
hub.emit('message', { hello: 'world' }); // logs the object and 'Message event fired'
hub.emit('increment'); // `increment` variable is now 1
// Unsubscribe: stop a specific handler from listening to the 'message' event
hub.off('message', handler);
```