Learn JavaScript SORTING in 6 minutes! 🗃

// sort() = method used to sort elements of an array in place.
// Sorts elements as strings in lexicographic order, not alphabetical
// lexicographic = (alphabet + numbers + symbols) as strings

[BroCodez]

// sort() = method used to sort elements of an array in place.
// Sorts elements as strings in lexicographic order, not alphabetical
// lexicographic = (alphabet + numbers + symbols) as strings

// EXAMPLE 1
const numbers = [1, 10, 2, 9, 3, 8, 4, 7, 5, 6];

numbers.sort((a, b) => a - b); //FORWARD
numbers.sort((a, b) => b - a); //REVERSE

console.log(numbers);

// EXAMPLE 2
const people = [{name: "Spongebob", age: 30, gpa: 3.0},
{name: "Patrick", age: 37, gpa: 1.5},
{name: "Squidward", age: 51, gpa: 2.5},
{name: "Sandy", age: 27, gpa: 4.0}]

people.sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age); //FORWARD
people.sort((a, b) => b.age - a.age); //REVERSE

people.sort((a, b) => a.gpa - b.gpa); //FORWARD
people.sort((a, b) => b.gpa - a.gpa); //REVERSE

people.sort((a, b) => //FORWARD
people.sort((a, b) => //REVERSE

console.log(people);

[alexkiiru]

Thank you dude.
Lol You did squidward dirty giving him a gpa lower than spongebob

[code-with-jimy]

Thanks brother this video is very easy to understand

[JamieDawsonCodes]

1:40 - Thanks for explaining the a - b thing in sort(). I didn't understand what was going on under the hood.

[latostadaa]

Thank you, you made this easy to understand

[JadeWays]

Thank You! you make it easy to understand.

[khansikki]

i want re-sort object according to name preserving keys
//js
const people = {1:{name:'carole', age:13}, 2:{name:'bob', age:12}, 3:{name:'alice', age:11}}
//required output
people = {3:{name:'alice', age:11}, 2:{name:'bob', age:12}, 1:{name:'carole', age:13}}

[LearnwithRandomYoutuber]

Why sort method works for only numbers below 10 ? Like wise in example apart from using Arrow function

[malablondi]

this helped in understanding how sort() works but i need to sort the outputs of mathemetical functions, how do you do that?

[janosjanosi]

Hey Bro!
Thank you!
Can I keep the original order?
And sort into another array?

[vallunacoder.wecodetogether]

hey Bro thanks for your videos, can you make some projects to understand how to use all this JavaScript methods for a website ?

[tanviranjum]

What’s the complexity of this sort() method

[shieldanime]

so the parameter a is the the first and the parameter b is the second..

can we switch the two parameter so that b is the first and a is the second? just like this? in the number.sort((b, a) => b - a)

[allhailalona]

i would think squidward is more intelligent than spongebob