backbone-promised

Wraps up Backbone's sync/XHR functions (Backbone.Model's save, fetch, destroy and Backbone.Collection's fetch) as promises. If using the native response from these methods, on success, they return a jQuery XHR promisable, on failure a falsy value. This eliminates the need to check to see if it's thennable. Another advantage is these promises return on options.success or options.error, rather than just the XHR response, so when the modified promises resolve, you can be sure that the collection or model is also updated by that time.

Install

npm install backbone-promised

Usage

BackbonePromised(prototype, resolver)

BackbonePromised takes two arguments; first a prototype (or object) with the methods that should be extended (save, fetch, destroy). Generally this will be Backbone.Model.prototype, but can be any object. The second argument is a Promise resolver so you can use any promise library, as long as you pass in a function that is called with a resolver function, like when.promise.

var Backbone = require("backbone");
var BackbonePromised = require("backbone-promised");
var when = require("when");
var Model = Backbone.Model.extend(BackbonePromised(Backbone.model.prototype, when.promise));

var user = new Model({ name: "Dash Rendar" });
user.save().then(({ model, options, response }) => {
  console.log("success!", response);
}, ({ model, options, response }) => {
  console.error("rejected!", response);
});

License

MIT License