bo's rolodex

[botrethewey]

ROLODEX

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Backbone model works similar to a class of an object. It can hold default attribute values, custom methods, and other business logics
How do Backbone Views compare to Rails controllers?	Backbone view works similarly to the rails controllers in that it connects the Model and the DOM. Backbone view listens for events by the model and the DOM object and acts according to the respective event handlers and renders the html
How do Backbone Events work in comparison to DOM events?	Backbone events occurs when an instance of a model or a collection has changed, whereas DOM event refers to events that occur via the browser
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	Backbone helps to organize the structure of the single page apps by giving structures like model. collection. and views.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I think there's a good opportunity to have a group class on using the browser to debug in this project :)

[CheezItMan]

ROLODEX

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	You need to make more granular commit.
Comprehension questions	Check, good point on debugging.
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, however your RolodexView won't detect clicks below the list of contacts. I would suggest the el element be a larger component like the body element.
Styling, Foundation grid layout	Check
All dynamic content is rendered using an Underscore template	Check
Overall	Nice work! You hit all the requirements for the project.