Stef -- Carets

[SesameSeeds]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Models are used to represent data from your server and actions you perform on them will be translated to RESTful operations. Thanks https://cdnjs.com.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	I had to think about how they worked in general to be perfectly honest.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events listen to changes with Backbone Models and Collections. In this example when a new trip is created the new trip needs to run an isValid method. DOM events are where elements or objects are changed directly.
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	I did not filter as we were told we did not have to do so.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I think it's a lot. I also think I will enjoy it better with more time and practice.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Definitely do not have this right before interview week, please for the love of the next cohort. Also, more information/details and time working through things, because it took a lot to get to urlRoot just to display the details of a trip for example. Having more time and information probably would really have helped this project. I enjoy these type of projects, such as I did API muncher, but I would have liked more time/info to get an end product I could be proud of.

[CheezItMan]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good number of commit and good commit messages
Comprehension questions	Check
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)	Check
Functionality
Display list of trips	Check
Display trip details	Check
Register for a trip	Registers for a trip, but doesn't report success to the user. It also has trouble with validations.
Add a trip	You are having trouble reading the name field of the add trip form. See my notes in your code.
Sort trips	Check, nicely done!
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	Not fancy styling, but it's laid out properly.
API error handling	It reports API errors
Client-side validation	Client-side validations are there, but it's not reporting the result to the user, outside of the console.
Overall	Not bad, you got almost all the functionality done, things missing include some jQuery to select fields, and reporting things to the user. I left some notes for you in your code.

[CheezItMan]

It's good that you're checking validation errors, but this needs to be reported to the user as well.

[CheezItMan]

Good, good to use for letting the user know the validation error issues.

[CheezItMan]

This isn't being selected by app.js Because it's having trouble with $('input[name="name"]') Instead an alternative way of being selected would be appropriate, an id etc.

[CheezItMan]

This isn't working for the name field.