Use Lodash instead of Underscore

[raix]

There's an open issue on meteor meteor/meteor#1009 that would be nice to keep track of. (its the most upvoted closed issue in meteor so I've set community agree)

Please vote there!

Why:
@jdalton

• Better documentation
• Consistency
• Compatibility
• Performance
• Customization
• Support, & more features & repo activity
• It's also easy to switch, simply swapping module names (with compat paths if necessary)
• Follows semver

Waiting:
@glasser:

Lodash looks great. But just like every time we upgrade a Node minor
version, the day I swap in lodash will be a day where I do a full automated
and manual QA of Meteor. Which is something we're trying to make more and
more automated, but we're not there yet.

Due to this comment I assume MDG agree

[ai10]

Lodash.min is 50kb, underscore.min is 16kb?

[pihentagy]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lodash/lodash/3.7.0/lodash.min.js is 18k

[jdalton]

It's as if lodash has more functionality/features 😀

[Sivli-Embir]

It's as if lodash has more functionality/features.

I have had to use a number of other packages to fill the gap. I expect my total underscore plus friends min is well over 50kb. 18k is amazing.

👍 +1 👍

[dandv]

Since the meteor/meteor GitHub issue is open now that MDG accepts feature requests via GitHub, I've update the OP and will close the issue here.

[rclai]

Hey guys, so I've created a repository with a solution to actually replace underscore under the hood with lodash:
https://github.com/rclai/meteor-lodash-replace-underscore
Please feel free to contribute or let me know of any suggestions.

[zimme]

@rclai: 👍

[veob]

Hey, guys.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lodash/lodash/3.7.0/lodash.min.js is 50kB, not 18kB (latest too). What am I doing wrong?

[jdalton]

It's gzipped to 18kb.

Since folks seem to be concerned with file size you all may dig that lodash v4 will ship with a 4kb build (thats +1kb smaller than Underscore) while still supporting Backbone and packed with 60+ methods.

[veob]

Ah, okay. Thank you 👍