Hmm... I'm using underscore.js in my views and lists...  maybe snake the 
version I'm using?

https://github.com/jimklo/TheCollector/blob/master/dataservices/thecollector-resources/views/lib/underscore-min.js

Jim Klo
Senior Software Engineer
Center for Software Engineering
SRI International
t.      @nsomnac

On Aug 6, 2012, at 10:17 AM, AL wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running archlinux and couchdb 1.2. I'm trying to develop a couchapp: 
> although I could use couchdb only as a database, I like the idea of 
> "self-containess" in couchapps. The application I want to build is fairly 
> simple, consisting of list and detail views. I have a set of books described 
> in a bibtex-like fashion, and I'm trying to serve a webpage that lists the 
> whole collection, organized by year. Here is my view map:
> 
>    function(doc) {
>      if (doc.application === "publication") {
>        emit([doc.year, doc.title], doc);
>      };
>    }
> 
> I'd like to get a webpage consisting of several ul tags; one for every year. 
> The getrow() function makes it easy to make one big list (1. opening the 
> list, 2. creating a list element for every row, 3. closing the list) but for 
> what I want to achieve it seems a little bit trickier.
> 
> My idea was to use underscorejs `_.sortBy` method to reorganize the data by 
> year into a dictionary, to end up with something like this:
> 
>    {
>      '2009': [
>        {'title': ' The Transformer -- Principles of Making Isotype Charts', 
> ...},
>        {'title': ' Verbindingen/Jonctions 10, Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields', 
> ...},
>        {...}
>      ],
>      '2012': [
>        {'title': 'Tying the Story to Data: The graffiti Markup Field Recorder 
> Challenged, GML', ...},
>        {'title': 'Inside Photoshop', ...},
>        {...}
>      ],
>      ...
>    }
> 
> From there, I'd be able to loop through each key and append to my html output 
> an HTML list. Unfortunately, I'm unable to import underscorejs, as it seems 
> like they have dropped support for commonjs. There are forks and similar 
> libraries that are supposed to work, but whatever I try, it fails (see my 
> question here: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11781502/using-underscorejs-in-a-couchapp-list/11817375#11817375).
> 
> So I'd like to know whether it is achievable in this way or another, and if 
> my direction is correct, how I can use underscorejs (or similar) in a 
> couchapp.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

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