Sorting strings in reverse order with backbone.js

Question

I\'m trying to sort a Backbone.js collection in reverse order. There are previous replies on how to do this with integers, but none with strings.

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Answer 1

I just solved a similar problem with table sorting and I wanted to share the code since I didn't find much help in these answers:

events: {

    'click th.sortable': function(e) {
        var $this = $(e.target),
            order = $this.hasClass('asc') ? 'desc' : 'asc',
            field = $this.data('field'); /* this is a string */

        $this.siblings().addBack().removeClass('asc desc');
        $this.addClass( order );

        this.bodyView.collection.comparator = field;
        this.bodyView.collection.sort();
        if ( order === 'desc' ) this.bodyView.collection.models.reverse();

        this.bodyView.render();
    }

},

in this case I simply set comparator to string instead of a function; the string has to be the name of the property you want to sort by. Then I just call reverse on the models if the order has to be inverse.