How to fetch a Backbone.js model by something other than the ID?

Question

Backbone.js\'s default, RESTful approach to fetching a model by the ID is easy and straight-forward. However, I can\'t seem to find any examples of fetching a model by a differe

Answer 1

If the model is part of a collection you can use where() to pull out the models matching some criteria.

See http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-where