sort-by

A utility to create comparator functions for the native Array.sort() in both node and the browser. Allows for sorting by multiple properties.

Inspired by this StackOverflow answer.

Example

var sortBy = require('sort-by'),
    users = [];

users = [{
    id: 7,
    name: 'Foo',
    age: '34',
    email: { primary: '[email protected]' }
}, {
    id: 3,
    name: 'Baz',
    age: '67',
    email: { primary: '[email protected]' }
}, {
    id: 4,
    name: 'Bar',
    age: '67',
    email: { primary: '[email protected]' }
}];

users.sort(sortBy('name', 'age'));

/**
*   result:
*       [{id: 4, name: 'Bar', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 3, name: 'Baz', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 7, name: 'Foo', age: '34', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }}]
*/

/**
* Use `-` to reverse the sort order
*/

users.sort(sortBy('-id', 'name'));

/*
*   result:
*       [{id: 7, name: 'Foo', age: '34', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 4, name: 'Bar', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 3, name: 'Baz', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }}]
*/

/**
* Use `.` notation to traverse nested properties. See [object-path](https://www.npmjs.org/package/object-path) npm module for support.
*/

users.sort(sortBy('age', 'email.primary'));

/*
*   result:
*       [{id: 7, name: 'Foo', age: '34', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 4, name: 'Bar', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }},
*       {id: 3, name: 'Baz', age: '67', email: { primary: '[email protected]' }}]
*/

Test in node

git clone https://github.com/staygrimm/sort-by.git
cd sort-by && make test-node

Test in the browser

git clone https://github.com/staygrimm/sort-by.git
cd sort-by && make test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Kevin Neff [email protected]

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