Question

I’ve been checking the docs of Backbone and Underscore for a “proper” way to extract a model (remove the value and have it returned) from a collection. I know I can do this through direct access via the “models” array attribute and the splice method, but is that stepping around some built-in way I’m overlooking?

Answer 1

From your comment:

I’m looking to actually remove the model at say index 5 and have that value returned.

Try this:

// given: myCollection is a Backbone collection

var item = myCollection.at(5);
myCollection.remove(item);

// ... now, do whatever else with `item`...