pipes - Tamira - BackTREK

[tvojnar]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Models keep track of data and are the building blocks of collections.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	Storing data in models and collections made things like sorting easier because you had local storage of the data.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events are triggered when something happens to a model or collection while DOM events are triggered when something happens to elements in the DOM.
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	I had a keyup event in the filter form trigger the key/value pairs in a hash that is a property of the TripList collection to be updated. Then render is triggered. In render my custom filter method is called on the collection and filtered by each kay/value pair in the property hash of the collection. Then the filtered array of trips is displayed on the page.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	Backbone makes everything easier because it adds more structure.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	It felt like a really big project to have the week before interviews. The last could weeks were pretty mellow by comparison, so at least letting us know that this will be a big project ahead of times would be helpful so we can schedule our interview prep accordingly.

[CheezItMan]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Lots of commits and good commit messages, good
Comprehension questions	Check, Model also handle communicating to the API. We'll take your comments about the week into consideration for C9
Organization
Models and collections are defined in separate files	Check
Code that relies on the DOM is located in or called by $(document).ready	Check
Code follows the Backbone data flow (DOM event -> update model or collection -> Backbone event -> update DOM)	Well done!
Functionality
Display list of trips	Check
Display trip details	Check, although I nearly missed it because the block shows up at the bottom of the list.
Register for a trip	Check
Add a trip	Check
Sort trips	Check
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	The user gets good feedback on their actions. Getting the details pane to show next to or above the list would be ideal.
API error handling	Check
Client-side validation	Check, nicely done, I left a few notes in your code.
Overall	Well done, you hit all the learning goals and it look like you started filtering. Great work!