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Dominic Myers
Dominic Myers

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lodash _.sortBy

I needed to order an array of objects in an arbitrary fashion, using strings which make sense to the business but aren't necessarily orderable otherwise. Unfortunately, I had to support IE11, so couldn't do fancy JS. Thankfully I had access to lodash. Anyway, I came up with this:

var statuses = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];

var complexObj = { 
  dataset: [
    { 
      label: "two"
    },{ 
      label: "four"
    },{ 
      label: "three"
    },{ 
      label: "one"
    },
  ]
};

console.table(complexObj.dataset);

complexObj.dataset = _.sortBy(complexObj.dataset, function(n) {
  return _.indexOf(statuses, n.label);
});

console.table(complexObj.dataset)

Which worked a treat, once I'd clocked I need to return the sorted array rather than merely sort it.

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