Sorting Backbone collection alphabetically

Question

Is there a way to do this out of the box with the _.sortBy method or any other part of the library?

Answer 1

You mean like this?

var array = [
    { name: "banana" },
    { name: "carrot" },
    { name: "apple" }
];

var sorted = _(array).sortBy("name");

I'd say it works out of the box.

If you wanted to sort an ordinary array of strings, you probably just want to use sort:

var flatArray = ["banana", "carrot", "apple"];

flatArray.sort();

See here. Also works.

Note that Underscore's sortBy returns a new array which is sorted, where JavaScript's built-in sort function sorts an array in place.