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Generalized event dispatching API

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\#Canteen Events

A generalized event dispatching API to add an event-based pattern to your application. For documentation of the codebase, please see [Canteen Events docs](http://canteen.github.io/CanteenEvents/).

\##Installation

Install is available using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org).

```
composer require canteen/events dev-master
```

\###Rebuild Documentation

This library is auto-documented using [YUIDoc](http://yui.github.io/yuidoc/). To install YUIDoc, run `sudo npm install yuidocjs`. Also, this requires the project [CanteenTheme](http://github.com/Canteen/CanteenTheme) be checked-out along-side this repository. To rebuild the docs, run the ant task from the command-line.

```
ant docs
```

\##License##

Copyright (c) 2013 [Matt Karl](http://github.com/bigtimebuddy)

Released under the MIT License.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4598d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a8c8b26b4bef66000886f554f9498714eddf11bdc41673d33a0f6365a82f293b?d=identicon)[bigtimebuddy](/maintainers/bigtimebuddy)

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Top Contributors

[![bigtimebuddy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/864393?v=4)](https://github.com/bigtimebuddy "bigtimebuddy (5 commits)")

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Tags

eventsevent dispatcher

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