I have an array of object literals like this:
var myArr = []; myArr[0] = { 'score': 4, 'name': 'foo' } myArr[1] = { 'score': 1, 'name': 'bar' } myArr[2] = { 'score': 3, 'name': 'foobar' } How would I sort the array so it ascends by the 'score' parameter such that it would change to:
myArr[0] = { 'score': 1, 'name': 'bar' } myArr[1] = { 'score': 3, 'name': 'foobar' } myArr[2] = { 'score': 4, 'name': 'foo' } Thanks in advance.
Try myArr.sort(function (a, b) {return a.score - b.score});
The way the array elements are sorted depends on what number the function passed in returns:
< 0 (negative number): a goes ahead of b> 0 (positive number): b goes ahead of a0: In this cases the two numbers will be adjacent in the sorted list. However, the sort is not guaranteed to be stable: the order of a and b relative to each other may change. 
You could have a look at the Array.sort documentation on MDN. Specifically at the documentation about providing a custom compareFunction
const myArray = [ { 'score': 4, 'name': 'foo' },{ 'score': 1, 'name': 'bar' },{ 'score': 3, 'name': 'foobar' } ] const myOrderedArray = _.sortBy(myArray, o => o.name); console.log(myOrderedArray);<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.js"></script>