Backbone/Underscore sortBy is not sorting collection

Question

I have a list of users (six to be exact) in a collection with \'firstname\', \'lastname\' properties. Doing a fetch, the comparator below sorts them by \'firstname\', and it wor

Answer 1

To respond to your update:

If you're wanting to change the order that the collection is sorted in for use by it's corresponding view then you could just update the comparator and then call sort to get the model re-sorted. This will then fire a sort event which your view can listen for and update itself accordingly.

this.collection.comparator = function (user) {
  return user.get("firstname").toLowerCase();
};

this.collection.sort();