Sort object values alphabetically

Question

So I working on a discord bot that has a rank system. I have got to the point where I have an object that looks like this:

let ranks = {
   "Joe": 1,
   "Mary": 6,
   "Johnson": 4
}

so I need to sort these in order of level so it looks like this:

let ranks = {
   "Mary": 6,
   "Johnson": 4,
   "Joe": 1
}

I have no idea how to do this. I have tried putting the values into lists and using names.sort() but that does not work. Any help would be appriciated.

Those are objects, not arrays and they don't guarantee order of properties. see: [Does JavaScript guarantee object property order?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5525795/does-javascript-guarantee-object-property-order) — pilchard, Jan 18 '21 at 21:57
There's no array, nor JSON, in the question. That's why array functions like `sort()` do not work. That's an object, and object properties do not have an inherent order. — Heretic Monkey, Jan 18 '21 at 21:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 18 '21 at 23:09

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I don't see the reason to sort an object properties. U can transform the object to array for use sort thanks to Object.entries

For example

let sortedArr = Object.entries(ranks).sort((a,b) => (b[1] -a[1]));

and then you get your result by Object.fromEntries()

let sortedObj = Object.fromEntries(sortedArr)

edited Jan 18 '21 at 23:09

3limin4t0r

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answered Jan 18 '21 at 22:12

moqiyuanshi

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '21 at 22:51

use this code

let ranks = {
   "Joe": 1,
   "Mary": 6,
   "Johnson": 4,
   'Ahmed': 1

}
console.log( ranks)
//get the keys
var keys = Object.keys(ranks)
var testArray = [] ;

// get a new array to work on 
keys.forEach(key=>{
  testArray.push(key)  
})

// sort the keys
 
var sortedKeys = testArray.sort()

// get the right values of the sorted keys

var sortedVals = []
sortedKeys.forEach(Skey =>{
  sortedVals.push(ranks[Skey])
})

//clear the old ranks 

ranks = {}
var i = 0;

// get the new ranks object
sortedKeys.forEach(key=>{
  ranks[key] = sortedVals[i]
  i++
})

console.log( ranks)

Sort object values alphabetically

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