To sort an array of objects by date with JavaScript, we call the sort method.

For instance, we write

const recent = [
  { id: 123, age: 12, start: "10/17/2022 13:07" },
  { id: 13, age: 62, start: "07/30/2022 16:30" },
];
const sorted = recent.sort((a, b) => {
  return new Date(a.start).getTime() - new Date(b.start).getTime();
});

to call recent.sort with a callback that gets the timestamp of the start property of 2 of the objects in recent with getTime and then compare them by subtracting them to return a number that determines the sorting order.

a is sorted after b if the number returned is bigger than 0.

a is sorted before b if the number returned is less than 0.

And the original order is kept if it’s 0.