今天可以结合@knowbody (https://stackoverflow.com/a/42418963/6778546)和@Rocket Hazmat (https://stackoverflow.com/a/8837511/6778546)的回答来提供ES2015的支持和正确的日期处理:

var arr = [{
    "updated_at": "2012-01-01T06:25:24Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  {
    "updated_at": "2012-01-09T11:25:13Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  {
    "updated_at": "2012-01-05T04:13:24Z",
    "foo": "bar"
  }
];
arr.sort((a, b) => {
   const dateA = new Date(a.updated_at);
   const dateB = new Date(b.updated_at);
   return dateA - dateB;
});

这样我们就可以传递一个用于排序的键函数

Array.prototype.sortBy = function(key_func, reverse=false){
    return this.sort( (a, b) => {
        var keyA = key_func(a),
            keyB = key_func(b);
        if(keyA < keyB) return reverse? 1: -1;
        if(keyA > keyB) return reverse? -1: 1;
        return 0;
    }); 
}

例如，如果我们有

var arr = [ {date: "01/12/00", balls: {red: "a8",  blue: 10}},
            {date: "12/13/05", balls: {red: "d6" , blue: 11}},
            {date: "03/02/04", balls: {red: "c4" , blue: 15}} ]

我们可以

arr.sortBy(el => el.balls.red)
/* would result in
[ {date: "01/12/00", balls: {red: "a8", blue: 10}},
  {date: "03/02/04", balls: {red: "c4", blue: 15}},
  {date: "12/13/05", balls: {red: "d6", blue: 11}} ]
*/

or

arr.sortBy(el => new Date(el.date), true)   // second argument to reverse it
/* would result in
[ {date: "12/13/05", balls: {red: "d6", blue:11}},
  {date: "03/02/04", balls: {red: "c4", blue:15}},
  {date: "01/12/00", balls: {red: "a8", blue:10}} ]
*/

or

arr.sortBy(el => el.balls.blue + parseInt(el.balls.red[1]))
/* would result in
[ {date: "12/13/05", balls: {red: "d6", blue:11}},    // red + blue= 17
  {date: "01/12/00", balls: {red: "a8", blue:10}},    // red + blue= 18
  {date: "03/02/04", balls: {red: "c4", blue:15}} ]   // red + blue= 19
*/

我已经在Typescript中创建了一个排序函数，我们可以使用它来搜索字符串，日期和对象数组中的数字。它还可以对多个字段进行排序。

export type SortType = 'string' | 'number' | 'date';
export type SortingOrder = 'asc' | 'desc';

export interface SortOptions {
  sortByKey: string;
  sortType?: SortType;
  sortingOrder?: SortingOrder;
}


class CustomSorting {
    static sortArrayOfObjects(fields: SortOptions[] = [{sortByKey: 'value', sortType: 'string', sortingOrder: 'desc'}]) {
        return (a, b) => fields
          .map((field) => {
            if (!a[field.sortByKey] || !b[field.sortByKey]) {
              return 0;
            }

            const direction = field.sortingOrder === 'asc' ? 1 : -1;

            let firstValue;
            let secondValue;

            if (field.sortType === 'string') {
              firstValue = a[field.sortByKey].toUpperCase();
              secondValue = b[field.sortByKey].toUpperCase();
            } else if (field.sortType === 'number') {
              firstValue = parseInt(a[field.sortByKey], 10);
              secondValue = parseInt(b[field.sortByKey], 10);
            } else if (field.sortType === 'date') {
              firstValue = new Date(a[field.sortByKey]);
              secondValue = new Date(b[field.sortByKey]);
            }
            return firstValue > secondValue ? direction : firstValue < secondValue ? -(direction) : 0;

          })
          .reduce((pos, neg) => pos ? pos : neg, 0);
      }
    }
}

用法:

const sortOptions = [{
      sortByKey: 'anyKey',
      sortType: 'string',
      sortingOrder: 'asc',
    }];

arrayOfObjects.sort(CustomSorting.sortArrayOfObjects(sortOptions));

为了完整起见，这里有一个sortBy的简短泛型实现:

function sortBy(list, keyFunc) {
  return list.sort((a,b) => keyFunc(a) - keyFunc(b));
}

sortBy([{"key": 2}, {"key": 1}], o => o["key"])

注意，这里使用了就地排序的数组排序方法。 对于副本，您可以使用arr.concat()或arr.slice(0)或类似的方法来创建副本。

使用下划线js或lodash，

var arrObj = [
    {
        "updated_at" : "2012-01-01T06:25:24Z",
        "foo" : "bar"
    },
    {
        "updated_at" : "2012-01-09T11:25:13Z",
        "foo" : "bar"
    },
    {
        "updated_at" : "2012-01-05T04:13:24Z",
        "foo" : "bar"
    }
];

arrObj = _.sortBy(arrObj,"updated_at");

_.sortBy()返回一个新数组

请参阅http://underscorejs.org/#sortBy和 lodash docs https://lodash.com/docs#sortBy

这是另一种更数学的方式，做同样的事情，但更短:

arr.sort(function(a, b){
    var diff = new Date(a.updated_at) - new Date(b.updated_at);
    return diff/(Math.abs(diff)||1);
});

或者在光滑的lambda箭头样式中:

arr.sort((a, b) => {
    var diff = new Date(a.updated_at) - new Date(b.updated_at);
    return diff/(Math.abs(diff)||1);
});

这个方法可以使用任何数字输入