Do more than what the default Backbone Model/Collection request event does for you. The primary benefits are
- Provide robust lifecycle events (
before-send,after-send,success,error,complete) - Emit type specific XHR events to allow for focused binding
- Give ability to see if a model currently has any pending XHR activity
- Provide a global event bus to bind to all Model/Collection XHR activity
- Allow requests to be intercepted to, for example, return cached content
- Add ability to intercept and override response data before it is returned to the Model/Collection
- Provide event forwarding capabilities so other objects can simulate XHR activity to match another Model/Collection
- Make all event names and additional attributes overrideable to meet the needs of your particular project
- Give external entities a way to observe ajax activity on your Collections and Models
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