sort funcion js 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

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 3: how the sort function works javascript

const unsorted = ['d', 'd', 'h', 'r', 'v', 'z', 'f', 'c', 'g'];
const sorted = unsorted.sort();

console.log(sorted);
//["c", "d", "d", "f", "g", "h", "r", "v", "z"]


const unsortedNums = [45, 56, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 45, 1];
const sortedNums = unsortedNums.sort((a, b) => {
	return a - b;
});

console.log(sortedNums);
//[1, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 45, 45, 56]