sort

A tiny library to sort array of objects based on multiple properties. Ultra small, just 0.50KB [minified+gzipped] and 2.25KB [uncompressed source].

Getting Started

If you are using npm

$ npm install --save sort-object-array

or include index.js manually as

<script src="index.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Usage

const sort = require('objectarray-sort');

sort([{a:{b:2}},{a:{b:6}},{a:{b:1}}], 'a.b');

sort(test, ['a.b', 'a.c.d', 'a.e.f.g'], ['desc', 'asc', 'desc']);

For browser environments, the library exports a global arraySort, which can be used in a similar fashion,

arraySort(test, ['a.b', 'a.c', 'a.d'], ['desc', 'asc', 'desc']);
// returns the sorted 'test' array

API

sort(array, sortBy, [order])

Sorts and returns an array.

array

Type: Array Default: none

Array to be sorted

sortBy

Type: String | Array Default: none

The property against which sorting is to be performed. A single string value or array of strings. If an array is passed, the priority of sort is in decreases from left to right. Say, if you pass ['a.b', 'a.c'] as the argument, the function will sort the array based on 'a.b' first, then for same values of 'a.b', it will sort those values by 'a.c' and so on. By default, all orders are ascending. For changing order, see order.

order

Type: String | Array Default: 'asc'

The order which sorting is to be performed. A single string value or array of strings. Values are 'asc' or 'desc'. If it is an array, it maps one to one to the arguments of sortBy. In the example sort(test, ['a.b', 'a.c.d', 'a.e.f.g'], ['desc', 'asc', 'desc']), 'a.b' is sorted in descending order, 'a.c.d' in ascending order and 'a.e.f.g' in descending order.

Defaults to 'asc'.