How does Javascript's sort() work?

Question

How does the following code sort this array to be in numerical order?

var array=[25, 8, 7, 41]

array.sort(function(a,b){
  return a - b
})

Answer 1

Deeply Knowledge

If the result is negative a is sorted before b.

If the result is positive b is sorted before a.

If the result is 0 no changes are done with the sort order of the two values.

NOTE:

This code is the view inside of the sort method step by step.

OUTPUT:

let arr = [90, 1, 20, 14, 3, 55];
var sortRes = [];
var copy = arr.slice();		//create duplicate array
var inc = 0;	//inc meant increment
copy.sort((a, b) => {
	sortRes[inc] = [ a, b, a-b ];
	inc += 1;
	return a - b;
});
var p = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < inc; i++) {
	copy = arr.slice();
	copy.sort((a, b) => {
		p += 1;
		if (p <= i ) {
			return a - b;
		}
		else{
			return false;
		}
	});
	p = 0;
	console.log(copy +' \t a: '+ sortRes[i][0] +' \tb: '+ sortRes[i][1] +'\tTotal: '+ sortRes[i][2]);
}