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[RAgerone]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	The model plays the role of the class. The class is each individual in the collection.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	This is extremely interesting. The restful calls are much easier for me to work with than the custom api calls.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	Backbone events are a little cleaner.
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	With filtering, I can fetch by continent. This was a difficult task because I wasn't sure whether to make a new file, or add on to the collection. I ended up adding a function to the collection that calls the api on a click event.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I found the magic to be difficult to work with at first. I like to know what is happening in my code and it was disconcerting to have something happen when I'm not understanding the concepts. This took me a lot longer to work with than calling the api manually with javascript.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I hear that React is more user friendly. It also seems to be better documented.

[CheezItMan]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good commit messages, more commits would be better
Comprehension questions	Check, Backbone Events are triggered by changes in the data as opposed to user action.
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	Yes, but the confirmation message tries to print an object instead of a string.
Add a trip	Check
Sort trips	Check, but you should add some styling which highlights the sorted column.
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	A pretty good interface and uses modals to display information. I would avoid however using modals for validation failures. A modal is pretty good when you want the user to enter some information, but making them click an X after a typo or missed field is annoying.
API error handling	Check
Client-side validation	Check, very nicely done
Overall	Congrats you hit all the learning goals for the project, nice work.

[CheezItMan]

Nice!

[CheezItMan]

You should also have an error event handler to let the user know when the API call fails.