Backbone.js progress bar while fetching collection

Question

i\'d like to show a progress bar while i update the app with fresh content. I guess the best thing to do would be to do it while calling .fetch on a collection.

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Answer 1

You could use jQuery ajaxStart and ajaxStop to show the progress on start and hide it on end. Doing it this way, however, will show your indicator any time and ajax request is made on your page.

A route you could take if you want to limit it to just that particular fetch would be to override the sync method in that collection or model and wrap the default sync with some code that shows and hides the progress bar.