http://cpkenn09y.github.io/MyCatalogMaker/

• Would have been in my comfort zone to use Ruby on Rails => Decided Not to Use RoR
• Had never used in Backbone.js => Decided YES!
• Had never used Firebase => Decided YES!
• Use them in combination to make a webapp the updates in realtime!
• Excited about the challenge!!

• Open Terminal App: (copy and paste the contents to the right of the arrow into the Terminal)
  • -> cd Desktop
  • -> git clone https://github.com/cpkenn09y/MyCatalogMaker.git
  • -> cd MyCatalogMaker
  • -> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
    • Open Google Chrome and enter the URL - http://localhost:8000

• Zero knowledge of Backbone.js => Learn Backbone.js
• Zero knowledge of Firebase => Learn Firebase
• Use both harmoniously => "Backfire" (Backbone + Firebase)
• Read lots of documentation
• Learn learn learn!
• Devise a plan of execution
• Trying to iterate over a collection as soon as the page loads caused problems
  • The collection instance had to first sync up with the db since asynchronous
• Make it look presentable

• Create more items, and see the data immediately loaded into the DB
• Play around with screen resizing, to see the media queries at play

Note: The actual coding of this project was completed within 24 hours.

• Add validations for the instantiation of an Item
• Use BackboneView listeners to enable Editing and Deletion of items
• Use require.js to decrease the number of calls made to the server
• Extract the templates from the View
• Add user registration or OAuth
• Allow user to create multiple items with one click
• Consider using handlebars.js