Underscore.js - Map Array of key/value pairs to an Object - One liner

Question

I\'ve been going through the underscore docs but I can\'t seem to find a method (or nested method call) to do the following transformation:

Let\'s say I have the followi

Answer 1

var a =  [{ "name" : "sEcho", "value" : 1},{ "name" : "iColumns", "value" : 12} ];

var o = {}; _.each(a, function(e) { o[e.name] = e.value; });

console.log(o);
// Object {sEcho: 1, iColumns: 12}