sort object properties and JSON.stringify

Question

My application has a large array of objects, which I stringify and save them to the disk. Unfortunately, when the objects in the array are manipulated, and sometimes replac

Answer 1

I think that if you are in control of the JSON generation (and it sounds like you are), then for your purposes this might be a good solution: json-stable-stringify

From the project website:

deterministic JSON.stringify() with custom sorting to get deterministic hashes from stringified results

If the JSON produced is deterministic you should be able to easily diff/merge it.