Haby's Rolodex

[habypsow]

ROLODEX

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	The model helps us keep track of a collection of data, helps to save and load information from the app to the back end, and vice versa, and has the ability to trigger events when information in the data changes.
How do Backbone Views compare to Rails controllers?	They have a similar role, as they work between the DOM and the data. When a DOM event happens, the view handles it and behaves according to what the data needs to update accordingly, and modifies the DOM to match.
How do Backbone Events work in comparison to DOM events?	Backbone events provide the ability for the backbone view to listen for changes in the model. The view listens for changes in the model, and calls render when they occur. In short, other components have the ability to respond when data in the model changes because of the 'listenTo" method.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	It seems like Backbone has the ability to provide structure and order to applications. I know that we have just scratched the surface with Backbone, and I want to make sure that I am able to fully grasp these newly covered concepts as we move on to more Backbone!
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I am not sure.. It seems like we covered a ton of material this week! Backbone has many different moving parts, and I am not sure I am 100% solid on all those parts right now.

[CheezItMan]

Just a few comments.

[CheezItMan]

What role is this serving?

[CheezItMan]

I would suggest passing this in as a parameter instead of hardcoding it.

Alternatively, you should at least use this.$ instead of raw jQuery to select elements.

[CheezItMan]

Should use this.$ instead of raw jQuery.

[CheezItMan]

ROLODEX

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good commit
Comprehension questions	Check, don't worry we'll be doing more and more Backbone over the next two week.
Functionality
Created a Contact Model	Check
Created a Rolodex Collection	Check
Created a ContactView which renders an individual contact	Check
ContactView responds to a click event when the user clicks on the contact	Check
RolodexView created which renders the list of contacts	Check
DOM Events handled for creating new Contacts	Check
The RolodexView responds to custom Backbone event generated by ContactView to show the modal	Check
Styling, Foundation grid layout	Check
All dynamic content is rendered using an Underscore template	Check
Overall	Nice work, you hit all the requirements, just remember to avoid using raw jQuery when selecting elements in a view and avoid hardcoding things as much as possible. Nice work overall!