In this old answer is there the below function based event emitter.

Maybe it is super obvious how to use it, but not for me, so I would really appreciate if someone could make a hello world example with it.

Can anyone figure out how to use it?

function EventBase() {
  this.events = {};
};

EventBase.prototype = {
  on: function (event, listener) {
    if (typeof event !== 'string') throw new TypeError("Event must be a string");
    if (typeof event !== 'string') throw new TypeError("Listener must be a function");
    this.events[event] || (this.events[event] = []);
    this.events[event].push(listener);
  },

  off: function (event, listener) {
    if (arguments.length === 0) {
      // remove all listeners
      this.events = {};
      return;
    }

    if (!this.events[event]) {
      // return if there's no event by the given name
      return;
    }

    if (arguments.length === 1) {
      // remove all listeners for the given event
      delete this.events[event];
      return;
    }

    // remove specific listener
    this.events[event] = this.events[event].filter(function (func) {
      return func !== listener;
    });
  },

  emit: function (event) {
    if (!this.events[event]) {
      // return if there's no event by the given name
      return;
    }

    // get args
    var args = [].slice.call(arguments, 1);

    // invoke listeners
    this.events[event].forEach(listener => listener.apply(this, args));
  },

  getListenerCount: function (event) {
    // get total number of listeners
    if (arguments.length === 0) {
      return Object.keys(this.events).reduce((count, key) => count + this.getListenerCount(key), 0);
    }

    // return zero for non-existing events
    if (!this.events[event]) {
      return 0;
    }

    // return count for specific event
    return this.events[event].length;
  }
};