javascript sort array alphabetically by value code example

Example 1: javascript sort alphabetically

var items = ['réservé', 'premier', 'communiqué', 'café', 'adieu', 'éclair'];
items.sort(function (a, b) {
  return a.localeCompare(b); //using String.prototype.localCompare()
});

// items is ['adieu', 'café', 'communiqué', 'éclair', 'premier', 'réservé']

Example 2: javascript sort array of ints

function sortNumbers(a, b) {
  return a - b;
}
var ages = [12, 95, 43, 15, 10, 32, 65, 78, 8];
ages.sort(sortNumbers); //ages is now sorted low to high
//console.log(ages); [8, 10, 12, 15, 32, 43, 65, 78, 95]