Alena's Rolodex

[Spatterjaaay]

ROLODEX

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What role does the Model play in Backbone?	Model initializes objects with attributes that we can specify and set defaults to them and validate them.
How do Backbone Views compare to Rails controllers?	Backbone views have a similar function to controllers in Rails. They are the middle man that coordinates between templates and DOM and data/models. It's their task to update data and also tell DOM to display the changed data. It can also listen to DOM events or Backbone events and act on them.
How do Backbone Events work in comparison to DOM events?	Dom events are events in which user interacts with the DOM (such as click, keypress etc). Backbone can listen to those, but it also listens, for example, to changes to the model, so it can display them. Backbone events can be custom events that are emitted by different Backbone objects.
What do you think of Backbone in comparison to raw JavaScript & jQuery?	I do think it organizes the code better, but at the same time trying to keep track of the flow of what is responding to what and where is quite challenging. I'll be happy to get more practice with Backbone and solidify my understanding that way.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I think it was interesting to introduce the project gradually, and the live code was a life saver! So not really :)

[CheezItMan]

You seem to be calling render twice here.

[CheezItMan]

ROLODEX

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Good # of commits
Comprehension questions	The Model keeps track of the application data and business logic and also handles communicating back and forth to the API or permanent storage.
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
The RolodexView responds to custom Backbone event generated by ContactView to show the modal	Check, although I noted that you do call render on the detailsView twice.
Styling, Foundation grid layout	Check
All dynamic content is rendered using an Underscore template	Check
Overall	Nice work, you hit all the requirements.