Adam Zerner

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29187895/what-is-requirejs-shim-exports-for Btw, I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWGuaZOTR4U particularly useful and made a "skim" of it - https://skimmablevideos.herokuapp.com/skims/show/550d8b5465748e03008d4fc0.

Confusing sentence

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I'm not sure what the following sentence is saying, and I suspect that there's a typo. > If you’ve read the earlier chapter on AMD, you may have noticed that...

It was the 'aha' moment for me, so I figured I'd mention it.

This visualization of zombie events might be useful: https://github.com/adamzerner/zombie-events/blob/master/visualization.png

Assignment to better understand motivation of Backbone/frameworks

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I got started with web development a few months ago. I had never gone through the struggles of spaghetti code with JS/jQuery. Learning Backbone/other frameworks before going through this seems...

> Also note that when using add() on a collection, passing {merge: true} causes duplicate models to have their attributes merged in to the existing models, instead of being ignored....

Request: Intro for beginners

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I'm a beginner and am not entirely sure what this is doing. My understanding: if it's a "first time request", 1) create an empty session object and 2) send back...

Ex. https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/#fenced-code-blocks The option to add a button + shortcut for this would be nice. The third party libraries used to show the Preview already support it.

Is there a reason why the installation step says to add the `--save-dev` flag? My [understanding](https://stackoverflow.com/a/42206389/1927876) is that `--save-dev` is for things that you don't truly need for the application...

NPM

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Would you mind adding this to NPM?