Carets- Julia Meier

[julmeier]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	The model can set default values for data, validate changes to data, read and write data to the API, and trigger events when the data changes.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	It reminded me of rails app functionality.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events include changes to the data, which may not be correlated to DOM events.
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	I did not try to make this optional feature.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I much prefer the latter, based on what we've learned so far...
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Reduce scope!!

[kariabancroft]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	For a project spanning several days, you should have many more commits (probably 2x or 3x more)
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	Somewhat - the templates are all within their individual event handlers, but should be created as global variables with the $(document).ready because the DOM might not be populated with the template info within these event handler.
Code follows the Backbone data flow (DOM event -> update model or collection -> Backbone event -> update DOM)	Yes - demonstrated at least one example of this with the way renderSingleTrip is used.
Functionality
Display list of trips	Good
Display trip details	Good
Register for a trip	You don't put the URL directly in event handlers anywhere else so why do that when creating a reservation? This is too much information for the event to know - this should be set in the model object like the other cases within the app.
Add a trip	Good
Sort trips	Yes
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	Your code includes error handling - using specific functions for this purpose which is a nice way to encapsulate this functionality
API error handling	Yes
Client-side validation	Yes
Overall	You were able to get the core of the functionality covered on this assignment. There is still some confusion about what goes where, but hopefully with the introduction of views, this will help make it even more clear. While it is totally reasonable that you do a lot of debugging throughout your application, the quantity of console.log statements throughout make it extremely difficult to follow along. Please review these statements (and commented out code) prior to submitting assignments in the future to make the final version of your code the most clean & clear.

[kariabancroft]

With jQuery available, you generally should be using document. for selectors since the jQuery shorthand is much shorter.

[kariabancroft]

Hmm is this method name leftover from the in-class example?