So for the past few days I've been trying to sort an array of objects while comparing the values I want to sort to a main array.
<blockquote>
an array that contains standard elements
</blockquote>
Let me put this straight, i.e. an array has five types of jewels
<code>["beryl", "chrysoberyl", "corundum", "diamond", "feldspar"]</code> and I want this to be a standard of sorting objects that'll have these jewels as values, I may want these to be in ascending order.
<ul>
<li>beryl = 1</li>
<li>chrysoberyl = 2</li>
<li>corundum = 3</li>
<li>diamond = 4</li>
<li>feldspar = 5</li>
</ul>
So it means all objects will be sorted according to the order of these jewels, let's take this array of objects as a sample.
<pre><code>let owners = [
 {name: 'Nolan', jewel: 'chrysoberyl'},
 {name: 'Bower', jewel: 'corundum'},
 {name: 'Ian', jewel: 'beryl'}
 ]
</code></pre>In my sorter function below i',m searching for the index of owners jewel in the jewels array then using the sort method to get the objects in ascending order.
<pre><code> const sorter = (owners) =&gt;{
 let jewels = ["beryl", "chrysoberyl", "corundum", "diamond", "feldspar"];
 return owners.sort((a, b) =&gt; jewels.indexOf(a.jewel) - jewels.indexOf(b.jewel))
 }

 console.log(sorter(owners))
</code></pre>And this is my sorted array:
<pre><code>[
 { name: 'Ian', jewel: 'beryl' },
 { name: 'Nolan', jewel: 'chrysoberyl' },
 { name: 'Bower', jewel: 'corundum' }
]
</code></pre>Thanks for reading.

So for the past few days I've been trying to sort an array of objects while comparing the values I want to sort to a main array.
> an array that contains standard elements

Let me put this straight, i.e. an array has five types of jewels
``` ["beryl", "chrysoberyl", "corundum", "diamond", "feldspar"] ```  and I want this to be a standard of sorting objects that'll have these jewels as values, I may want these to be in ascending order.

- beryl = 1
- chrysoberyl = 2
- corundum = 3
- diamond = 4
- feldspar = 5

So it means all objects will be sorted according to the order of these jewels, let's take this array of objects as a sample.


```
let owners = [
    {name: 'Nolan', jewel: 'chrysoberyl'},
    {name: 'Bower', jewel: 'corundum'},
    {name: 'Ian', jewel: 'beryl'}
    ]

``` 
In my sorter function below i',m searching for the index of owners jewel in the jewels array then using the sort method to get the objects in ascending order.

```
 const sorter = (owners) =>{
        let jewels = ["beryl", "chrysoberyl", "corundum", "diamond", "feldspar"];
          return owners.sort((a, b) => jewels.indexOf(a.jewel) - jewels.indexOf(b.jewel))
    }

 console.log(sorter(owners))
``` 

And this is my sorted array:


```
[
  { name: 'Ian', jewel: 'beryl' },
  { name: 'Nolan', jewel: 'chrysoberyl' },
  { name: 'Bower', jewel: 'corundum' }
]

``` 
Thanks for reading.


Sorting An array of objects