Is it possible to dispatch events on regular objects (not DOM ones)?

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I just found out that FileReader dispatches events just as if it was a DOM element. Is it? I wonder if it's possible to create an object similar to FileReader, which doesn't have a representation in HTML/XML structure, but can dispatch events?

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jQuery can dispatch events from regular objects. Here's a fiddle.

function MyClass() {
    $(this).on("MyEvent", function(event) {
        console.log(event);
    });

    $(this).trigger("MyEvent");
}

var instance = new MyClass();
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