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[DEPRECATED] A React component for binding events on the global scope
https://github.com/layershifter/event-stack

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[DEPRECATED] A React component for binding events on the global scope

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# Deprecated

Issues mentioned in `README` should be solved by other approaches:
- `.addEventListener()` is blazing fast and is not a real performance issue
- to solve issues with ordering in case when regular DOM event propogation is not available consider to use things like https://github.com/palmerhq/react-register-nodes.

Please avoid usages of this library.

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> A React component for binding events on the global scope.

## Installation

```bash
yarn add @semantic-ui-react/event-stack
# or
npm install @semantic-ui-react/event-stack
```

## Why?

The `EventStack` solves two design problems:

1. Reduces the number of connected listeners to DOM nodes compared to `element.addListener()`.
2. Respects event ordering. Example, two modals are open and you only want the top modal to close on document click.

## Usage

```jsx
import React, { Component } from 'react'
import EventStack from '@semantic-ui-react/event-stack'

class MyComponent extends Component {
handleResize = () => {
console.log('resize')
}

render() {
return (




)
}
}
```

##### Note on server-side rendering

When doing server side rendering, document and window aren't available. You can use a string as a `target`, or check that they exist before rendering the component with [`exenv`](https://github.com/JedWatson/exenv), for example.

##### Note on performance

You should avoid passing inline functions for listeners, because this creates a new Function instance on every render, defeating `EventListener`'s `shouldComponentUpdate`, and triggering an update cycle where it removes its old listeners and adds its new listeners (so that it can stay up-to-date with the props you passed in).

## Implementation details

The `EventStack` is a public API that allows subscribing a DOM node to events. The event subscription for
each unique DOM node creates a new `EventTarget` object.

```
+------------+ +-------------+
| | 0..* | |
| EventStack | +------> | EventTarget |
| | | |
+------------+ +-------------+
```

## EventTarget

Each `EventTarget` is assigned to an unique DOM node. An `EventTarget` tracks event handlers for
the target's DOM node. Making multiple subscriptions to a `click` event for a single DOM node will
result in a single registered `handler` for that DOM node. An `EventPool` also handles `EventPool`
relations, it stores only unique pools.

```
+-------------+ +---------+
| | 0..* | |
| EventTarget | +------> | handler |
| | | |
+-------------+ +---------+

+ +-----------+
| 0..* | |
+----------------> | EventPool |
| |
+-----------+
```

A `handler` is a generated function that will notify the corresponding subscribed `EventPool`.

## EventPool & EventSet

An `EventPool` notifies its `EventSet`, while an `EventSet` stores a set of subscribed
event handlers. An `EventSet` is also responsible for event ordering and dispatching to
subscribed handlers.

```
+-----------+ +----------+
| | 1 | |
| EventPool | +---> | EventSet |
| | | |
+-----------+ +----------+
```

#### Credits

The idea of a React component is taken from [`react-event-listener`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-event-listener).