Question

For a json object like this,

list=[
 {name:"hello",
  category:"verb"},
 {name:"world",
  category:"noun"}
];

What would be the fastest way to categorize the array using underscore to get this:

category=[
{id:"verb",
 list:[
  {name:"hello",
  category:"verb"}
 ]},
{id:"noun",
 list:[
  {name:"world",
  category:"noun"}
 ]}
];

It should be some kind of chained map-reduce… Of course I could do this easily using _.filter (but that would be slow), or using a for loop.

Answer 1

OK, I found it:

groupBy _.groupBy(list, iterator)
Splits a collection into sets, grouped by the result of running each value through iterator. If iterator is a string instead of a function, groups by the property named by iterator on each of the values.

_.groupBy([1.3, 2.1, 2.4], function(num){ return Math.floor(num); });
=> {1: [1.3], 2: [2.1, 2.4]}

_.groupBy(['one', 'two', 'three'], 'length');
=> {3: ["one", "two"], 5: ["three"]}

So I did it using this(I already had a list):

var listofwords=_.groupBy(doc.words, function(word){
        return word.category;
    });
    _.each(doc.lists,function(list){
        list.words=listofwords[list.name];
    });