Wrapping $.ajax In A Thin “Command” Framework For Backbone Apps 4 May, 2012. It was a Friday. A large number of my recent client applications, built on Backbone, have been using straight jQuery AJAX calls. Sometimes its in combination with Backbone’s persistence method, but other times I end up using AJAX calls in place of Backbone calls. Non-CRUD-y Apps Now I don’t think that there’s anything wro