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Comment by lordlarm | Hacker News Reader

«The Backbone object now extends Events so that you can use it as a global event bus, if you like.»

This is great, up until now I've extended the app with Backbone.Event like:

   App = {
       view = {},
       model = {},
       collection = {},
       events = {},
    _.extend(App.events, Backbone.events)

Congrats on the soon-to-be 1.0 release :)

Same, although we use it in combination with Require, so we had an 'events' module:

    define(["Backbone", "underscore"], function(Backbone, _) {
      return _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);
    });

and a dependency on 'events' in all our modules:

    define(["Backbone", "events"), function(Backbone, Events) {
       // stuff
       Events.on("event", stuff);
    });