Pipes - Sairagul - BackTrek

[sairagula]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Model holds data and business logic, like the models in Rails
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	Collection is helpful with dealing a group of related models. It reminded me a controller in Rails. Model takes all business logic, and controller handles loading and saving new models to the server and creating additional helper methods if needed
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events occur when data changes, DOM events get triggered by user action
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	I didn't do filtering yet
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	Backbone was a lot more structured, which made my code cleaner
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	For me it would have been better if we had this big project after the interview week, so that I could focus on it better.

[CheezItMan]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	You need more commits! Be a committer! Also for commit messages make them about functionality added, not waves completed.
Comprehension questions	Check, and Backbone models and collections handle API communication.
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	Check
Add a trip	Check
Sort trips	Check
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	The layout is nicely done and responds quickly. You also provide the user feedback with success and error messages.
API error handling	Well done!
Client-side validation	Check, but note that the validation error show behind the modal. This can make it hard to see. If you're using a modal for adding trips, have the errors show there.
Overall	Nicely done, you hit all the learning goal. Nice work

[CheezItMan]

This would be better as a urlRoot function.

[CheezItMan]

Consider adding an error event handler to deal with times that the API doesn't work and let the user know.

[CheezItMan]

Consider adding an error event handler to deal with times that the API doesn't work and let the user know.