Queues - Elizabeth Deutsch - Rolodex

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ROLODEX

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Models in Backbone are similar to Models in Rails. Backbone Models can organize application data and business logic, load and save data to and from the server, and can trigger their own events when data changes. Collections are a kind of model. They are similar to an array in that they are ordered sets of models.
How do Backbone Views compare to Rails controllers?	Backbone Views are like Rails controller in that they handler controller logic, but they also render data/models/collections for the user and listen for DOM and Model events. They are the middle person between the DOM and the Models/Collections.
How do Backbone Events work in comparison to DOM events?	A DOM event is triggered by a user doing something on their end such as clicking a button (ex. "Save" for a contact in Rolodex). Backbone Events are what allow us to respond when something happens from the other direction - to a Model or Collection. Backbone events include update, change, add, remove, etc.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I think Backbone is a great way to organize raw JavaScript & jQuery. It's much easier to follow the code when it is split between the view, model, and html files. Also, the event hashes are a great way to organize the functions and events that trigger them.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?

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ROLODEX

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Commit more often
Comprehension questions	Mostly good - review what models are responsible for, they do not handle events.
Functionality
Created a Contact Model	Well Done
Created a Rolodex Collection	Well Done
Created a ContactView which renders an individual contact	Well Done
ContactView responds to a click event when the user clicks on the contact	Well Done - Is the line "'click .contact-card': 'showContactInfo'" in you RolodexView necessary? (you're probably guessing 'no', which is correct. How come?) What code between your rolodexview and contactview make that line unnecessary?
RolodexView created which renders the list of contacts	Well Done
DOM Events handled for creating new Contacts	Well Done
The RolodexView responds to custom Backbone event generated by ContactView to show the modal	Well Done
Styling, Foundation grid layout	Mostly Good - looking at the DOM, notice an li is getting rendered inside of another li for the small contact cards in rolodex list. When you set a view's tagname to an element, like 'li', what does that do? Does the template for that view need that tag repeated again in the underscore template?
All dynamic content is rendered using an Underscore template	Well Done
Overall
	Submission meets expectations for this project. Well Done!