Sort array by order according to another array

Question

I have an object that is being returned from a database like this: [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}]. I have another array which specified the order the first array should be

Answer 1

var objArray = [{id:1},{id:2},{id:3}];
var sortOrder = [2,3,1];

var newObjArray = [];
for (i in sortOrder) {
    newObjArray.push(objArray[(sortOrder[i]) - 1])
};