js sort by 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: sort a string in javascript

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

Example 4: 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)

Example 5: javascript sort function

var points = [40, 100, 1, 5, 25, 10];
points.sort((a,b) => a-b)

Example 6: array sort js

arr = ['width', 'score', done', 'neither' ]
arr.sort() // results to ["done", "neither", "score", "width"]

arr.sort((a,b) => a.localeCompare(b)) 
// if a-b (based on their unicode values) produces a negative value, 
// a comes before b, the reverse if positive, and as is if zero

//When you sort an array with .sort(), it assumes that you are sorting strings
//. When sorting numbers, the default behavior will not sort them properly.
arr = [21, 7, 5.6, 102, 79]
arr.sort((a, b) => a - b) // results to [5.6, 7, 21, 79, 102]
// b - a will give you the reverse order of the sorted items 

//this explnation in not mine