trivial-compare

The simplest possible compare function that can be used with JavaScript's Array.prototype.sort and any data type that gives reasonable results for the < and > comparison operators.

In practice, this means you can use this library to sort numbers as well as strings without caring what the elements actually are.

I find myself dropping this tiny utility function in more or less any app I write, so now there's a stupid npm module to stop this madness.

(As an aside, it feels weird such a function would not be part of the standard library - I sort of hope this is a misunderstanding on my part and this library is just totally redundant, please drop me a note if there's a better way to do this!)

API

There's just a single function exported by this library:

compare(a, b)

comapare will return -1 if a < b, 1 if a > b and 0 otherwise (if they are equal, in other words).