# Listen for ajax:success

**URL:** <https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/listen-for-ajax-success/120>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 22, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/listen-for-ajax-success/120 "2018-02-22T20:58:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![justinbkay](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discuss.hotwired.dev/justinbkay/32/77_2.png) [@justinbkay](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/justinbkay)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/listen-for-ajax-success/120/1 "2018-02-22T20:58:33Z")

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Can stimulus listen for ajax events like ajax success? I’m looking to replace some jQuery where I’m listening for ajax:success events and doing something after the request completes. I tried using ajax:success-\> in the action, but it didn’t fire.

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**Author:** ![javan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discuss.hotwired.dev/javan/32/594_2.png) [@javan](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/javan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/listen-for-ajax-success/120/2 "2018-02-22T21:17:25Z")

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See [https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus/issues/78](https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus/issues/78)

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**Author:** ![damel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@damel](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/damel)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/listen-for-ajax-success/120/3 "2018-10-10T16:17:15Z")

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[https://medium.com/parallel-thinking/stimulus-rails-remote-forms-ca5b3e2f02ed](https://medium.com/parallel-thinking/stimulus-rails-remote-forms-ca5b3e2f02ed) - looks pretty good