Sort array of objects by single key with date value

Question

I have an array of objects with several key value pairs, and I need to sort them based on \'updated_at\':

[
    {
        \"updated_at\" : \"2012-01-01T06:25         


        

Answer 1

You could use the Lodash utility library to solve this problem (it's quite an efficient library):

const data = [{
    "updated_at": "2012-01-01T06:25:24Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  {
    "updated_at": "2012-01-09T11:25:13Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  {
    "updated_at": "2012-01-05T04:13:24Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  }
]

const ordered = _.orderBy(
  data,
  function(item) {
    return item.updated_at;
  }
);

console.log(ordered)

You can find documentation here: https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#orderBy