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

Works with lodash, nested objects, any value of object attribute:

function sort(myObj) {
  var sortedObj = {};
  Object.keys(myObj).sort().forEach(key => {
    sortedObj[key] = _.isPlainObject(myObj[key]) ? sort(myObj[key]) : myObj[key]
  })
  return sortedObj;
}
JSON.stringify(sort(yourObj), null, 2)

It relies on Chrome's and Node's behaviour that the first key assigned to an object is outputted first by JSON.stringify.