Backbone Events

HTML

<script src="http://underscorejs.org/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone-min.js"></script>

JavaScript

var object = {};

_.extend(object, Backbone.Events);

object.on("alert", function(msg) {
  alert("Triggered " + msg);
});

object.trigger("alert:Test", "an event");