notes.md

Notes

• Best way to establish has_many and belongs_to relationships bt/ models

  • nesting collections as model attributes?
  • backbone-relational?

• Graph data spec

  • http://jsongraphformat.info/

• Model-View bindings:

  • Backbone.stickit

• API: modification (local) vs. save (server)

  • model.save() // save to server (possibly only saving a diff of the data?)
    • delete all models/views that have been removed
  • model.remove() // temporarily remove model's view DOM element, but don't delete the model

• D3Views

  • Do nodes/edges get their own views? (currently, their wrapped up in the graphView)
  • how to associate D3 DOM data with model data

script.js
  |
  |----App
  |     |----Graph
  |           |----Nodes----Node
  |           |----Edges----Edge
  |
  |----AppView
        |----GraphView

principles

• Non-destructive data editing:
  • apply diffs to the data, but don't permanently alter the dataset, unless that modification can be applied to the upstream source
  • create an immutable graph history object that records changes
  • creating/destroying nodes/edges modifies the collections/models, and writes changes to history, but does not sync w/ server
  • commit event writes all changes as a changeset to server
  • fetch:data fetches raw data
  • fetch:changeset fetches and applies changeset