How to prevent automatic sort of Object numeric property?

Question

Why I met this problem: I tried to solve an algorithm problem and I need to return the number which appeared most of the times in an array. Like [5,4,3,2,1,1] should return

Answer 1

The simplest and the best way to preserve the order of the keys in the array obtained by Object.keys() is to manipulate the Object keys a little bit.

insert a "_" in front of every key name. then run the following code!

myObject = {
  _a: 1,
  _1: 2,
  _2: 3
}

const myObjectRawKeysArray = Object.keys(myObject); 
console.log(myObjectRawKeysArray)
//["_a", "_1", "_2"]

const myDesiredKeysArray = myObjectRawKeysArray.map(rawKey => {return rawKey.slice(1)}); 
console.log(myDesiredKeysArray)
//["a", "1", "2"]

You get the desired order in the array with just a few lines of code. hApPy CoDiNg :)