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

Update 2018-7-24:

This version sorts nested objects and supports array as well:

function sortObjByKey(value) {
  return (typeof value === 'object') ?
    (Array.isArray(value) ?
      value.map(sortObjByKey) :
      Object.keys(value).sort().reduce(
        (o, key) => {
          const v = value[key];
          o[key] = sortObjByKey(v);
          return o;
        }, {})
    ) :
    value;
}


function orderedJsonStringify(obj) {
  return JSON.stringify(sortObjByKey(obj));
}

Test case:

  describe('orderedJsonStringify', () => {
    it('make properties in order', () => {
      const obj = {
        name: 'foo',
        arr: [
          { x: 1, y: 2 },
          { y: 4, x: 3 },
        ],
        value: { y: 2, x: 1, },
      };
      expect(orderedJsonStringify(obj))
        .to.equal('{"arr":[{"x":1,"y":2},{"x":3,"y":4}],"name":"foo","value":{"x":1,"y":2}}');
    });

    it('support array', () => {
      const obj = [
        { x: 1, y: 2 },
        { y: 4, x: 3 },
      ];
      expect(orderedJsonStringify(obj))
        .to.equal('[{"x":1,"y":2},{"x":3,"y":4}]');
    });

  });

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Deprecated answer:

A concise version in ES2016. Credit to @codename , from https://stackoverflow.com/a/29622653/94148

function orderedJsonStringify(o) {
  return JSON.stringify(Object.keys(o).sort().reduce((r, k) => (r[k] = o[k], r), {}));
}