How to loop through the alphabet via underscoreJS

Question

I\'m using Underscore\'s template() method in BackboneJS views. I\'d like to show a list of alphabet letters in my view in order to sort a collection by letter.

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Answer 1

Using ES6 for-of:

for(let char of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" )
  console.log(char); // prints 'a' to 'z'
   

Pretty easy to use that in a template, and you could use Babel to transpile it to code for browsers which lack support for that syntax.