Is it possible to combine a ._max and a pluck?
Finding Max Works and returns an object with the highest scoreLabel
var maxScore = _.max(peopleList, scoreLabel);
But combining it with pluck returns a list of undefined
_.pluck(_.max(peopleList, scoreLabel), scoreLabel);
The purpose of _.pluck is to retrieve a field for each object in a collection - since _.max returns only a single object, you don't need to pluck, you can simply retrieve the field from the one object you have:
var maxScore = _.max(peopleList, scoreLabel)[scoreLabel];
The above will retrieve the person from peopleList who has the largest scoreLabel, and then retrieve that person's scoreLabel value.
Alternatively, you could swap the order of the calls to _.max and _.pluck, like this:
var maxScore = _.max(_.pluck(peopleList, scoreLabel));
This will build a collection of all the scoreLabel values, and then retrieve the largest one.
_.max(peopleList, scoreLabel) returns a person, not a collection of people, so you can simply access its scoreLabel property using bracket notation to get the maxScore.
var maxScore = _.max(peopleList, scoreLabel)[scoreLabel]
It looks like _.pluck has also been deprecated in favor of _.map(list, 'property') for the latest version of Lodash.
