Monday, 4 April 2016

Sort Array of Objects by specific key value | Javascript





I'm having trouble sorting a specific array of objects from a small personal project I'm working on. I have never had trouble using the Array.prototype.sort() function before, but I wonder if something about the multiple object keys is affecting it...



Been staring at it for longer than I care to admit and just need to ask for help now. :|



Goal: Sort array of objects alphabetically relative to a specific key.value on each of them.



Thanks in advance!



JS Fiddle Here




Sort function example - (I recommend looking at the full Fiddle for context though).



var sorted = array.sort((a, b) => { return a.key > b.key; });


SOLVED



@Ryan helped me find that returned a boolean isn't enough, you need to explicitly return a positive or negative number, or 0.



@Brk showed me an awesome quick way to do it.




This post has a very detailed description.
Sorting in JavaScript: Shouldn't returning a boolean be enough for a comparison function?



Thanks all! Sorry for the duplicate post :|


Answer



You can use localeCompare method which will returns a number indicating whether a reference string comes before or after or is the same as the given string in sort order.



var sorted = array.sort((a, b) => {
return a.subreddit.localeCompare(b.subreddit)

});


DEMO


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