Server-side Backbone.Model?

I wanted to ask if anyone has tried to create a Backbone Model on the server?

I appreciate Backbone is mainly for the client side and on a previous question about this no one recommended Backbone for the server...

I'm not creating a MVC website or designing REST services, and looking more to building something similar to a virtual Aggregation Server. A Backbone model would be ideal for me to initialise data feeds and stores based on events - and push data based on those events.

The trouble I have is that Backbone is dependent on jQuery. I am not using Backbone.View - so wondered if there was a way to use Backbone.Model on the server side in a requirejs.config kind of way?

I've looked at things like Rendr and its not suitable.

Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks.