Jan Edrozo | Carets

[JNEdrozo]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	In Backbone, the model plays a similar role to rails models. The models in Backbone allow us to organize data and business logic (e.g. validations and custom methods are placed in the model); they interact with the server by loading and saving data to and from the server, and they can help us keep track of changes by emitting events when data changes.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	The presence of models and collections helped me better conceptualize how to organize business logic and implement OOD (e.g. how does Trip and Reservation models interact and how do they relate to each other). It was also neat to be able to implement event listeners on collections like the tripList to notify the app when an update (e.g. fetch request) was completed to re-render a view.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events involve changes made to the data/model/collections (e.g. when a collection is updated), while DOM events involve user-related changes (e.g. when someone clicks on a button).
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	Not yet implemented, but hoping to implement this week (in addition to adding more styling)
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I like the structural support.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	More information/lecture on webpack -- like how it works with styling; how to configure webpack from the beginning so we understand what to import and use additional plugins if they are necessary. (For example, I was unable to change the favicon and wasn't sure if I needed the following plugin: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-webpack-plugin). Maybe not make this the project before interviews?

[kariabancroft]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good
Comprehension questions	Yes
Organization
Models and collections are defined in separate files	Yes
Code that relies on the DOM is located in or called by $(document).ready	Yes
Code follows the Backbone data flow (DOM event -> update model or collection -> Backbone event -> update DOM)	Yes
Functionality
Display list of trips	Good
Display trip details	Good
Register for a trip	Good - I think it is a bit odd that the reservation model object creation is within the trip model object. Normally, we wouldn't want to have these models rely on one another since the Trip model can (and should) be created without any knowledge of the Reservation model.
Add a trip	Good
Sort trips	Good
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	Yes
API error handling	Yes - nice job having success and failure event functions
Client-side validation	Yes - here is an opportunity to DRY things up since the #status-messages logic is duplicated in a few places.
Overall	Nice job on this - you hit the major learning goals on this assignment.