Stacks - Jackie - Rolodex

[jackiewatanabe]

ROLODEX

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	the backbone keeps track of data and triggers events when the data changes. You can set defaults and validate changes to the data in the model in Backbone
How do Backbone Views compare to Rails controllers?	The views in backbone are similar to rails controllers in that it handles updating data as well as updating the DOM after data changes.
How do Backbone Events work in comparison to DOM events?	backbone events update the DOM and backbone model based on DOM events
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	Still kind of hazy on the role of Backbone....
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	It might help to explain in more detail which views should handle which click events, and which views should handle triggering vs listening, etc.

[CheezItMan]

Just some notes in the code.

[CheezItMan]

Should be this.$('.modal-container').hide();

Remember to avoid raw jQuery in a view.

[CheezItMan]

Clever to do it this way so your View picks up the click to hide it.

[CheezItMan]

ROLODEX

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Decent # of commits, but could be more granular
Comprehension questions	Check, and I'll take note of a discussion about what views respond to which events.
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, good use of
The RolodexView responds to custom Backbone event generated by ContactView to show the modal	Good use of trigger to show the modal. Interesting how you created the modal div to be the entire viewport to detect the click and hide itself. Took me a bit to figure out how the ContactDetailsView picked up the event. It works well.
Styling, Foundation grid layout	Check
All dynamic content is rendered using an Underscore template	Check
Overall	Nice work, I like the use of the ContactDetailsView for the Modal.