[Question] Firing events with custom components

I'm trying to build a plugin for Grapesjs with some custom components, and I'm having trouble with triggering events and interacting with the component in the code. One problem I am having is that I added an attribute to the model for a custom text component. In the script for that text component, I change the attribute if the user has typed a certain character in the component. In the view for the component, I have a listener for the attribute: this.listenTo(model, 'change:customAttribute', this.doSomething);. My issue is that doSomething is never called, even though I can see that the attribute is changing through print statements in the console. Any advice? I would also really like to know if there is any way to detect the change in the custom attribute from the index.html file script, after initializing the editor (in a setup similar to the Grapesjs newsletter and webpage plugins)? Thank you.