Question

I want to sort my colection before I pass it to the template. I use in the render function of my view

CollectionForTelplate : this.Collection

I do the fetch as

var self = this;
//fetch done here
if (Collection.length > 0) {
    _.each(Collection, function(Model) {
        JSON.stringify(Model);
    }, this);
};
self.Collection = Collection;
self.render;

1. Is there any other way by means of which I can pass the collection to the template?
2. How do you sort a collection based on a string field of the model, say Model.name ? I tried writing a comparator in the collection and a sort function the view but unfortunately; it doesnot work for me

Answer 1

Is there any other way by means of which I can pass the collection to
the template?

Yes, collection’s have a toJSON() method so you can simply do something like

render: function() {
  this._template({list: this.toJSON()}); //assuming your template is already compiled
  return this;
}

How do you sort a collection based on a string field of the model, say
Model.name ? I tried writing a comparator in the collection and a sort
function the view but unfortunately; it does not work for me

You can simply define the comparator function on the collection, and it should keep itself sorted, here’s the example given in the docs

chapters.comparator = function(chapter) {
  return chapter.get("page");
};