Internet Explorer 9, 10 & 11 Event constructor doesn't work

Question

I am creating an event, so use the DOM Event constructor:

new Event(\'change\');

This works fine in modern browsers, however in Internet Ex

Answer 1

the custom-event npm package worked beautifully for me

https://www.npmjs.com/package/custom-event

var CustomEvent = require('custom-event');

// add an appropriate event listener
target.addEventListener('cat', function(e) { process(e.detail) });

// create and dispatch the event
var event = new CustomEvent('cat', {
  detail: {
    hazcheeseburger: true
  }
});
target.dispatchEvent(event);