please suggest elegant ways to sort an array by data types. For example, sorting the following array:
testArray = ["1", "5", 4 , 8, [1,2,3], {test:"test"}, [1,3,4], {test2:"test2"}, 6, "test"]
to appear like that:
["1", "5", "test", 4, 6, 8, [1,2,3], [1,3,4], {test:"test"}, {test2:"test2"}]
The actual order of the datatypes doesn't really matter.
Thanks!
If you don't have to worry about certain edge cases like undefined and null, you could use value.constructor.name.
This will sort values by type "Array", "Number", "Object", "String", in that order:
const input = ["1", "5", 4 , 8, [1,2,3], {test:"test"}, [1,3,4], {test2:"test2"}, 6, "test"];
const sorted = input.sort((a, b) => (a.constructor.name).localeCompare(b.constructor.name));
console.log(JSON.stringify(sorted));