Listen to All Emitted Events in Node.js

In Node.js is there any way to listen to all events emitted by an EventEmitter object?

e.g., can you do something like...

event_emitter.on('',function(event[, arg1][, arg2]...) {}

The idea is that I want to grab all of the events spit out by a server side EventEmitter, JSON.stringify the event data, send it across a websockets connection, reform them on the client side as an event, and then act on the event on the client side.

I know this is a bit old, but what the hell, here is another solution you could take.

You can easily monkey-patch the emit function of the emitter you want to catch all events:

function patchEmitter(emitter, websocket) {
  var oldEmit = emitter.emit;

  emitter.emit = function() {
      var emitArgs = arguments;
      // serialize arguments in some way.
      ...
      // send them through the websocket received as a parameter
      ...
      oldEmit.apply(emitter, arguments);
  }
}

This is pretty simple code and should work on any emitter.

As mentioned this behavior is not in node.js core. But you can use hij1nx's EventEmitter2:

https://github.com/hij1nx/EventEmitter2

It won't break any existing code using EventEmitter, but adds support for namespaces and wildcards. For example:

server.on('foo.*', function(value1, value2) {
  console.log(this.event, value1, value2);
});

With ES6 classes it's very easy:

class Emitter extends require('events') {
    emit(type, ...args) {
        console.log(type + " emitted")
        super.emit(type, ...args)
    }
}