Pipes - Sarah Read-Brown - BackTREK

[SRBusiness]

BackTREK

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Models function mostly like they do in Ruby, the help you keep track of your data, saving it and loading it to and from you backend. In backbone they can also be a part of a collections.
How did the presence of Models and Collections change the way you thought about your app?	Sort of. I had to figure out which part would be models (trips and reservations) plus how and IF they would fit into a larger collection (trips collection). The way of thinking about it wasn't too different from thinking about how we used models/classes in rails.
How do Backbone Events compare to DOM events?	They are really similar except that backbone events are triggered when the data for a model or collection changes while dom event triggered by a users action.
How did you approach filtering? What was your data flow for this feature?	I did not complete this.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	It can be helpful in organizing a bigger project.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	This seemed like a huge project right before interview week and when I didn't complete it last week I had very little motivation to complete it can felt like preparing for my interviews was a much greater priority. I would slim down the project a little and let us focus on interview week.

[CheezItMan]

BackTREK

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good number of commits, and good commit messages
Comprehension questions	Check, we understand it was a tough week
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 for listening for update events to trigger rendering. You would do something similar for the sort event.
Functionality
Display list of trips	Check
Display trip details	Check
Register for a trip	Check, good validations!
Add a trip	Check
Sort trips	MISSING
General
Snappy visual feedback for user actions	I like the modal for adding a trip, good UX overall
API error handling	Check
Client-side validation	Check, nicely done with Trip validation, they look good.
Overall	Nice work, you hit most learning goals just missing sorting. I'd review that this week, just so you can make sure you understand the concept. It's a fairly common paradigm in programming.