Underscore Setup

When every you include underscore into your code,it does a certain number of checks to make sure that there is no conflict and dependency issues.It also does a check and setup of the parameters that are required to use underscore.

  var root = this;
  var previousUnderscore = root._;
  var breaker = {};
  var ArrayProto = Array.prototype, ObjectProto = Object.prototype, FuncProto = Function.prototype;

  var 
    push = ArrayProto.push,
    slice = ArrayProto.slice,
    concat = ArrayProto.concat,
    toString = ObjectProto.toString,
    hasOwnProperty   = ObjProto.hasOwnProperty;

  var
    nativeForEach      = ArrayProto.forEach,
    nativeMap          = ArrayProto.map,
    nativeReduce       = ArrayProto.reduce,
    nativeReduceRight  = ArrayProto.reduceRight,
    nativeFilter       = ArrayProto.filter,
    nativeEvery        = ArrayProto.every,
    nativeSome         = ArrayProto.some,
    nativeIndexOf      = ArrayProto.indexOf,
    nativeLastIndexOf  = ArrayProto.lastIndexOf,
    nativeIsArray      = Array.isArray,
    nativeKeys         = Object.keys,
    nativeBind         = FuncProto.bind;

  var _ = function(obj) {
    if (obj instanceof _) return obj;
    if (!(this instanceof _)) return new _(obj);
    this._wrapped = obj;
  };

  if (typeof exports !== 'undefined') {
    if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
      exports = module.exports = _;
    }
    exports._ = _;
  } else {
    root._ = _;
  }

  _.VERSION = '1.5.2';






var root = this;

Underscore sets root as this ie it sets the root as the windows of the javascript context.

var previousUnderscore = root._;

We save the previous underscore in previousUnderscore.

var breaker = {};

Creates an empty object used later to break out out a loop.

var ArrayProto = Array.prototype, ObjProto = Object.prototype, FuncProto = Function.prototype;

Creates an empty Array object and function to work on later.

 var
    push             = ArrayProto.push,
    slice            = ArrayProto.slice,
    concat           = ArrayProto.concat,
    toString         = ObjProto.toString,
    hasOwnProperty   = ObjProto.hasOwnProperty;

Create references for the function so that we dont have to recreate one every time we have to use it.

var
    nativeForEach      = ArrayProto.forEach,
    nativeMap          = ArrayProto.map,
    nativeReduce       = ArrayProto.reduce,
    nativeReduceRight  = ArrayProto.reduceRight,
    nativeFilter       = ArrayProto.filter,
    nativeEvery        = ArrayProto.every,
    nativeSome         = ArrayProto.some,
    nativeIndexOf      = ArrayProto.indexOf,
    nativeLastIndexOf  = ArrayProto.lastIndexOf,
    nativeIsArray      = Array.isArray,
    nativeKeys         = Object.keys,
    nativeBind         = FuncProto.bind;

Create references for the native Ecmascript 5 implementation.

var _ = function(obj) {
    if (obj instanceof _) return obj;
    if (!(this instanceof _)) return new _(obj);
    this._wrapped = obj;
  };

Create a variable _ function.if underscore is already loaded we return it.If _ is not the same as the one loaded.we return a new instance of underscore.

Required to use underscore with node.js.

_.VERSION = '1.5.2'

Sets the version of underscore.