javascript sort string code example

Example 1: javascript sort chars in string

const sort = str => str.split('').sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b)).join('');

// Example
sort('hello world');    // dehllloorw

Example 2: javascript order by string array

users.sort((a, b) => a.firstname.localeCompare(b.firstname))

Example 3: javascript orderby

var items = [
  { name: 'Edward', value: 21 },
  { name: 'Sharpe', value: 37 },
  { name: 'And', value: 45 },
  { name: 'The', value: -12 },
  { name: 'Magnetic', value: 13 },
  { name: 'Zeros', value: 37 }
];

// sort by value
items.sort(function (a, b) {
  return a.value - b.value;
});

// sort by name
items.sort(function(a, b) {
  var nameA = a.name.toUpperCase(); // ignore upper and lowercase
  var nameB = b.name.toUpperCase(); // ignore upper and lowercase
  if (nameA < nameB) {
    return -1;
  }
  if (nameA > nameB) {
    return 1;
  }

  // names must be equal
  return 0;
});

Example 4: js order string

// function that returns a string in alphabetical order
function reorderStr(str) {
	return [...str].sort().join('');
}
console.log(reorderStr("hacker"));	//"acehkr"
console.log(reorderStr("javascript"));//"aacijprstv"

Example 5: sort a string in javascript

var string='ACBacb';
var sortedString = string.split('').sort().join('');

Example 6: javascript sort

var names = ["Peter", "Emma", "Jack", "Mia", "Eric"];
names.sort(); // ["Emma", "Eric", "Jack", "Mia", "Peter"]

var objs = [
  {name: "Peter", age: 35},
  {name: "Emma", age: 21},
  {name: "Jack", age: 53}
];

objs.sort(function(a, b) {
  return a.age - b.age;
}); // Sort by age (lowest first)