Underscore.js Case Insensitive Sorting

Question

Having some slight issues trying to get underscore.js to do case-insensitive sorting. I have an array of objects and would like to be able to sort by property name.

Answer 1

Don't use _.sortBy for this. The correct way to sort strings alphabetically is to use localeCompare. Here's an example in pure Javascript:

['Z', 'A','z','á', 'V'].sort(function(a, b){
   return a.localeCompare(b, undefined /* Ignore language */, { sensitivity: 'base' }) 
});

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/localeCompare.