Sorting JavaScript objects

Along with the ability to efficiently find objects that match a criteria, you will often require your objects to be in a certain order for outputting.

Getting ready

As with the previous recipe, create an HTML page named recipe-5.html where we can add and execute JavaScript code for this recipe using the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Chapter 3 :: AJAX & JSON</title>
  <script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script >

  </script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>

Update the reference to the jQuery library in order to ensure that it includes the correct file on your computer.

How to do it…

Create a reusable function to sort a JavaScript object by performing the following step-by-step instructions:

  1. Within the script ...

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