Monday August 10, 2015

Lecture

Questions

• Routing
• Filtering
• Following instructions
• url vs urlRoot
• "slightly similar" & "lots of files"
• term review

Debugging

Repetition, Patterns, and Marionette

Events and Fetch

Terms to Know

• Model - Stores properties for a single "record" that needs to be synced with the server or other data source
  • Useful methods: set, get, save, destroy, fetch
• Collection - Container for working with multiple models, useful for sorting, filtering, fetching all (or mulitple) models from the server.
  • Useful methods: fetch, get, add, find, findWhere, filter
• View - DOM representation of underlying data: responsible for rendering and user events/interactions (clicks, submits, etc)
  • Useful methods: $, remove
  • Useful properties: initialize, $el, template, render, events
• Router - Responsible for hooking up data into views and translating the URL/Address Bar into an "Application State" (what the user should see based on the URL).
  • Useful methods: navigate
  • Useful properties: routes