diff --git a/src/app/callbacks.jl b/src/app/callbacks.jl
index 314a6d8..2ecf2f5 100644
--- a/src/app/callbacks.jl
+++ b/src/app/callbacks.jl
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ function callback!(func::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction, String},
      output::Union{Vector{<:Output}, Output},
      input::Union{Vector{<:Input}, Input},
      state::Union{Vector{<:State}, State} = State[];
-     prevent_initial_call = nothing
+     kwargs...
      )
-     return _callback!(func, app, CallbackDeps(output, input, state), prevent_initial_call = prevent_initial_call)
+     return _callback!(func, app, CallbackDeps(output, input, state); kwargs...)
 end
 
 """
@@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ end
 function callback!(func::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction, String},
      app::DashApp,
      deps::Dependency...;
-     prevent_initial_call = nothing
+     kwargs...
      )
      output = Output[]
      input = Input[]
      state = State[]
      _process_callback_args(deps, (output, input, state))
-     return _callback!(func, app, CallbackDeps(output, input, state, length(output) > 1), prevent_initial_call = prevent_initial_call)
+     return _callback!(func, app, CallbackDeps(output, input, state, length(output) > 1); kwargs...)
 end
 
 function _process_callback_args(args::Tuple{T, Vararg}, dest::Tuple{Vector{T}, Vararg}) where {T}
@@ -124,10 +124,30 @@ function _process_callback_args(args::Tuple{}, dest::Tuple{})
 end
 
 
-function _callback!(func::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction, String}, app::DashApp, deps::CallbackDeps; prevent_initial_call)
+function _callback!(func::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction, String}, app::DashApp, deps::CallbackDeps;
+    prevent_initial_call = nothing,
+    background = false,
+    interval = 1000,
+    manager = nothing,
+    progress = nothing,
+    progress_default = nothing,
+    running = nothing,
+    cancel = nothing,
+    cache_args_to_ignore = nothing
+    )
 
     check_callback(func, app, deps)
 
+    if background
+        long_spec = Dict(:interval => interval)
+        manager !== nothing && (long_spec[:manager] = manager)
+        progress !== nothing && (long_spec[:progress] = progress)
+        progress_default !== nothing && (long_spec[:progress_default] = progress_default)
+        running !== nothing && (long_spec[:running] = running)
+        cancel !== nothing && (long_spec[:cancel] = cancel)
+        cache_args_to_ignore !== nothing && (long_spec[:cache_args_to_ignore] = cache_args_to_ignore)
+    end
+
     out_symbol = Symbol(output_string(deps))
     haskey(app.callbacks, out_symbol) && error("Multiple callbacks can not target the same output. Offending output: $(out_symbol)")
     callback_func = make_callback_func!(app, func, deps)
@@ -138,7 +158,8 @@ function _callback!(func::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction, String}, app::Dash
                 deps,
                 isnothing(prevent_initial_call) ?
                     get_setting(app, :prevent_initial_callbacks) :
-                    prevent_initial_call
+                    prevent_initial_call,
+                background ? long_spec : background
             )
         )
 end
diff --git a/src/app/supporttypes.jl b/src/app/supporttypes.jl
index dd913c6..f48a55e 100644
--- a/src/app/supporttypes.jl
+++ b/src/app/supporttypes.jl
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ struct Callback
     func ::Union{Function, ClientsideFunction}
     dependencies ::CallbackDeps
     prevent_initial_call ::Bool
+    # TODO: refine Any s when done
+    long ::Any
 end
 
 is_multi_out(cb::Callback) = cb.dependencies.multi_out == true
diff --git a/src/handler/state.jl b/src/handler/state.jl
index 56232ce..20d1d32 100644
--- a/src/handler/state.jl
+++ b/src/handler/state.jl
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ mutable struct StateCache
     StateCache(app, registry) = new(_cache_tuple(app, registry)..., false)
 end
 
+abstract type BackgroundCallBackManager end
+
+mutable struct DiskcacheManager <: BackgroundCallBackManager
+end
+
 _dep_clientside_func(func::ClientsideFunction) = func
 _dep_clientside_func(func) = nothing
 function _dependencies_json(app::DashApp)
@@ -30,7 +35,8 @@ function _dependencies_json(app::DashApp)
             state = dependency_tuple.(callback.dependencies.state),
             output = output_string(callback.dependencies),
             clientside_function = _dep_clientside_func(callback.func),
-            prevent_initial_call = callback.prevent_initial_call
+            prevent_initial_call = callback.prevent_initial_call,
+            long = callback.long !== false && (interval = callback.long[:interval],)
         )
     end
     return JSON3.write(result)
diff --git a/test/callbacks.jl b/test/callbacks.jl
index 2b8f6bd..70952b2 100644
--- a/test/callbacks.jl
+++ b/test/callbacks.jl
@@ -657,3 +657,22 @@ end
     @test occursin("clientside[\"_dashprivate_my-div\"]", body)
     @test occursin("ns[\"children\"]", body)
 end
+
+@testset "Background callbacks" begin
+    app = dash()
+    app.layout = html_div() do 
+        html_div(html_p(id = "paragraph_id", children = ["Button not clicked"]))
+        html_button(id="buttton_id", children = "Run Job!")
+    end
+
+    callback!(app, Output("paragraph_id", "children"), Input("button_id", "n_clicks"), background = true) do clicks
+        sleep(2)
+        return string("Clicked ", clicks, " times")
+    end
+
+    handler = make_handler(app)
+    request = HTTP.Request("GET", "/_dash-dependencies")
+    resp = Dash.HttpHelpers.handle(handler, request)
+    deps = JSON3.read(String(resp.body))
+    @test deps[1].long.interval == 1000
+end
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