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JavaScript - sort array of objects by string property value

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Rogan-Wilkes

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In this article, we would like to show you how to sort array of objects by string property value using JavaScript.

Quick solution:

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array.sort(function(a, b) {
    if ( a.name < b.name ){
        return -1;
    }
    if ( a.name > b.name ){
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
});

Practical example

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In this example, we sort an array of objects by name property value using the custom compare function as an argument of the sort() method.

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var array = [
  { name: 'Mark', age: 25 },
  { name: 'Ann', age: 32 },
  { name: 'Chris', age: 19 }
];
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array.sort(function(a, b) {
    if ( a.name < b.name ){
        return -1;
    }
    if ( a.name > b.name ){
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
});
​
console.log(JSON.stringify(array, null, 4));