How to loop through the alphabet via underscoreJS

Question

I'm using Underscore's template() method in BackboneJS views. I'd like to show a list of alphabet letters in my view in order to sort a collection by letter.

As a result, I have a list of 26 links (one link = one letter) in my view. Instead of copy-pasting each link (which is very bad for code maintainability), I was wondering if it was possible to loop through the alphabet via underscoreJS.

Result to display :

<li ><a href="#">a</a></li>
<li ><a href="#">b</a></li>
<li ><a href="#">c</a></li>
...
<li ><a href="#">z</a></li>

Answer 1

var alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".split("");
_.each(alphabet, function(letter) {
  console.log(letter);
});

That's how you could do it.