using lodash .groupBy. how to add your own keys for grouped output?

I have this sample data returned from an API.

I'm using Lodash's _.groupBy to convert the data into an object I can use better. The raw data returned is this:

[
    {
        "name": "jim",
        "color": "blue",
        "age": "22"
    },
    {
        "name": "Sam",
        "color": "blue",
        "age": "33"
    },
    {
        "name": "eddie",
        "color": "green",
        "age": "77"
    }
]

I want the _.groupBy function to return an object that looks like this:

[
    {
        color: "blue",
        users: [
            {
                "name": "jim",
                "color": "blue",
                "age": "22"
            },
            {
                "name": "Sam",
                "color": "blue",
                "age": "33"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        color: "green",
        users: [
            {
                "name": "eddie",
                "color": "green",
                "age": "77"
            }
        ]
    }
]

Currently I'm using

_.groupBy(a, function(b) { return b.color})

which is returning this.

{blue: [{..}], green: [{...}]}

the groupings are correct, but I'd really like to add the keys I want (color, users). is this possible using _.groupBy? or some other LoDash utility?

You can do it like this in both Underscore and Lodash (3.x and 4.x).

var data = [{
  "name": "jim",
  "color": "blue",
  "age": "22"
}, {
  "name": "Sam",
  "color": "blue",
  "age": "33"
}, {
  "name": "eddie",
  "color": "green",
  "age": "77"
}];

console.log(
  _.chain(data)
    // Group the elements of Array based on `color` property
    .groupBy("color")
    // `key` is group's name (color), `value` is the array of objects
    .map((value, key) => ({ color: key, users: value }))
    .value()
);

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Original Answer

var result = _.chain(data)
    .groupBy("color")
    .pairs()
    .map(function(currentItem) {
        return _.object(_.zip(["color", "users"], currentItem));
    })
    .value();
console.log(result);

Online Demo

Note: Lodash 4.0 onwards, the .pairs function has been renamed to _.toPairs()

Isn't it this simple?

var result = _(data)
            .groupBy(x => x.color)
            .map((value, key) => ({color: key, users: value}))
            .value();

Highest voted answer uses Lodash _.chain function which is considered a bad practice now "Why using _.chain is a mistake."

Here is a fewliner that approaches the problem from functional programming perspective:

import tap from "lodash/fp/tap";
import flow from "lodash/fp/flow";
import groupBy from "lodash/fp/groupBy";

const map = require('lodash/fp/map').convert({ 'cap': false });

const result = flow(
      groupBy('color'),
      map((users, color) => ({color, users})),
      tap(console.log)
    )(input)

Where input is an array that you want to convert.