Sorting on a custom order

Question

I was wondering how I can sort an array on a custom order, not alphabetical. Imagine you have this array/object:

var somethingToSort = [{
    type: \"fruit\"         


        

Answer 1

Improved version of Cerbrus' code:

var ordering = {}, // map for efficient lookup of sortIndex
    sortOrder = ['fruit','candy','vegetable'];
for (var i=0; i