Alex, If you are making a couchapp, and you want to use underscore, you should give http://kan.so/ a try. There is a kanso package already for underscore:
http://kan.so/packages/details/underscore Kanso makes using commonjs modules very easy, and there are lots of packages already available. Ryan On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Jim Klo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
