Sort array by firstname (alphabetically) in Javascript

Question

I got an array (see below for one object in the array) that I need to sort by firstname using JavaScript. How can I do it?

var user = {
   bio: null,
   emai         


        

Answer 1

Pushed the top answers into a prototype to sort by key.

Array.prototype.alphaSortByKey= function (key) {
    this.sort(function (a, b) {
        if (a[key] < b[key])
            return -1;
        if (a[key] > b[key])
            return 1;
        return 0;
    });
    return this;
};

Answer 2

You can use something similar, to get rid of case sensitive

users.sort(function(a, b){

  //compare two values
  if(a.firstname.toLowerCase() < b.firstname.toLowerCase()) return -1;
  if(a.firstname.toLowerCase() > b.firstname.toLowerCase()) return 1;
  return 0;

})

Answer 3

Inspired from this answer,

users.sort((a,b) => (a.firstname  - b.firstname));

Answer 4

Shortest possible code with ES6!

users.sort((a, b) => a.firstname.localeCompare(b.firstname))

String.prototype.localeCompare() basic support is universal!

Answer 5

Basically you can sort arrays with method sort, but if you want to sort objects then you have to pass function to sort method of array, so I will give you an example using your array

user = [{
bio: "<null>",
email: "user@domain.com",
firstname: 'Anna',
id: 318,
"last_avatar": "<null>",
"last_message": "<null>",
lastname: 'Nickson',
nickname: 'anny'
},
{
bio: "<null>",
email: "user@domain.com",
firstname: 'Senad',
id: 318,
"last_avatar": "<null>",
"last_message": "<null>",
lastname: 'Nickson',
nickname: 'anny'
},
{
bio: "<null>",
email: "user@domain.com",
firstname: 'Muhamed',
id: 318,
"last_avatar": "<null>",
"last_message": "<null>",
lastname: 'Nickson',
nickname: 'anny'
}];

var ar = user.sort(function(a, b)
{
  var nA = a.firstname.toLowerCase();
  var nB = b.firstname.toLowerCase();

  if(nA < nB)
    return -1;
  else if(nA > nB)
    return 1;
 return 0;
});

Answer 6

My implementation, works great in older ES versions:

sortObject = function(data) {
    var keys = Object.keys(data);
    var result = {};

    keys.sort();

    for(var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
        var key = keys[i];

        result[key] = data[key];
    }

    return result;
};