Node ES6 class event emitter function?

Question

I'm trying to create a class for which all instances respond to an event:

const events = require("events");
const eventEmitter = new events.EventEmitter();

class Camera {
    constructor(ip) {
        this.ip = ip;     
    }

    eventEmitter.on("recordVideo", recordClip);

    recordClip() {
        console.log("running record video");
    }
}

// emit event once a minute
setInterval(function(){
    eventEmitter.emit('recordVideo');
}, 1000*60);

The recordClip function never seems to be called. Is this possible?

I also tried running this.recordClip instead of recordClip.

Why do you have the statement in the class declaration and not inside the constructor or some other method? — MinusFour, Aug 09 '17 at 22:41
"all instances" also means "no instance" when you haven't instantiated any. — Bergi, Aug 09 '17 at 23:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 09 '17 at 22:45

Move it inside the constructor.

const events = require("events");
const eventEmitter = new events.EventEmitter();

class Camera {
    constructor(ip) {
        this.ip = ip;
        eventEmitter.on("recordVideo", this.recordClip.bind(this));
    }

    recordClip() {
        console.log("running record video");
    }
}

Node ES6 class event emitter function?

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