sort-by-property

Type-safe array sorting method with support for deeply nested properties and Typescript autocompletion.

blogPosts.sort(sortByProperty('author.name', 'asc'));

Features

• Type-safety and Typescript autocompletion on the properties you try to sort
• Define nested property to sort on using a path string like: "author.name"
• Supports sorting by string, number, boolean, Date, Symbol and BigInt values
• Handles null and undefined values gracefully by moving the object to the end of the array
• Small file size, only 0.6kb gzipped
• High performance, up to 3 times faster than lodash orderBy and sortBy *

Try it out: https://codesandbox.io/s/sort-by-property-example-hin358

Requirements

Requires Typescript 4.1+ because of the internal use of template literals for the autocompletion.

Installation

Install with your favorite package manager:

npm install sort-by-property

or

yarn add sort-by-property

Usage

// For an array of objects
import { sortByProperty } from 'sort-by-property';

// For one-dimensional arrays
import { sortBy } from 'sort-by-property';

Example: Sorting an array of objects

import { sortByProperty } from 'sort-by-property';

interface BlogPost {
  id: number;
  title: string;
  author: {
    id: number;
    name: string;
  };
}

const blogPosts: BlogPost[] = [
  {
    id: 1,
    title: 'Never gonna run around and desert you',
    author: {
      id: 10,
      name: 'Joe',
    },
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    title: 'Never gonna let you down',
    author: {
      id: 20,
      name: 'Ben',
    },
  },
  {
    id: 3,
    title: 'Never gonna give you up',
    author: {
      id: 30,
      name: 'Alice',
    },
  },
];

// Sort the blog posts by author name
blogPosts.sort(sortByProperty('author.name', 'asc'));

// If you need to use a custom locale for sorting strings, you can do
blogPosts.sort(sortByProperty('author.name', 'asc', {locale: 'nb-no'}))

Will sort the array ascending by author.name:

[
  { id: 3, title: 'Never gonna give you up', author: { id: 30, name: 'Alice' } },
  { id: 2, title: 'Never gonna let you down', author: { id: 20, name: 'Ben' } },
  { id: 1, title: 'Never gonna run around and desert you', author: { id: 10, name: 'Joe' } },
];

Will show a type error when you try to sort on properties that do not exist:

Will show an autocomplete of the available properties to sort on:

Example: Sorting one-dimensional arrays

This package exports 2 methods. Use sortBy to sort one-dimensional arrays. This sorting method supports all the same types as sortByProperty.

import { sortBy } from 'sort-by-property';

const array = ['c', 'b', 'a'];

array.sort(sortBy('asc'));

// Result: ['a', 'b', 'c']

* on an array with 10 million items: ~450ms vs ~1350ms. See the /src/examples directory.