How to render an Object in a Reverse Sorted/Descending order based upon key in Angular ?

Last Updated : 28 Apr, 2025

An Object is a collection of properties, and a property is an association between a name (or key) and a value. A Property's value can be a function, in which case the property is known as a method. Here, the sorting for an object will be done in descending order based on the key of the object.

In this article, we will see How to render an object in a reverse sorted /descending order in Angular, along with understanding their basic implementation with the help of examples.

Table of Content

Creating Angular application & Module Installation
Project Structure
Rendering an object in a reverse sorted /descending order using keyvalue Pair
Rendering an object in a reverse sorted /descending order using the sort function

Creating Angular application & Module Installation

Step 1: Create an Angular application using the following command.

ng new appname

Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. appname, move to it using the following command.

cd appname

Project Structure

It will look like the following:

z132

Rendering an object in a reverse sorted /descending order using keyvalue Pair

In this approach, we are using keyvalue Pair, where we have provided objects with keys in order like [1,2,3,4]. Now, we will use keyvalue and sort these keys in reverse as [4,3,2,1]. This can be done by overloading a function called reverseOrder and then implementing it in ts file and returning -1 from there.

Example: This example illustrates the displaying of an object in a reverse sorted /descending order based on key.

HTML

<!-- app.component.html -->
<h2 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>
  How to render an object in a reverse
  sorted /descending order based upon
  key in Angular
</h2>

<div *ngFor="let item of gfg |keyvalue :reverseOrder">
    <b style="color:red">
          {{item.key}}
      </b>
    {{set(item.value)}}
    <div *ngFor="let element of gfg2 |keyvalue  ">
        <ul>
            <li>
                  <b>{{element.key}}</b>
                 {{element.value}}
              </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

JavaScript

// app.component.ts
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { KeyValue } from '@angular/common';
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
    styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})


export class AppComponent {
    gfg: any =
        {
            "1":
            {
                "course": "Java",
                "cost": "1000"
            },
            "2":
            {
                "course": "React",
                "cost": "1500"
            },
            "3":
            {
                "course": "Angular",
                "cost": "1700"
            }
            ,
            "4":
            {
                "course": "CSS",
                "cost": "800"
            }
        }
    gfg2: any
    set(obj: any) {
        this.gfg2 = obj
    }
    console = console
    reverseOrder = 
        (x: KeyValue<string, any>, y: KeyValue<string, any>): number => {
        return -1
    }
}

JavaScript

// app.module.ts
import { NgModule }
    from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } 
    from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { HttpClientModule }
    from '@angular/common/http';
import { AppComponent } 
    from './app.component';

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
        AppComponent
    ],
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        HttpClientModule,
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Output:

Recording-2023-10-26-at-023720

Rendering an object in a reverse sorted /descending order using the sort function

In this approach, we are creating a sort function. This function will sort the values in descending order based on keys. Also, this is done on controller initialization using ngOnInit. Here we had keys in any random order like [3,4,2,1,7,9,8,5]. Output is like [9,8,7,5,4,3,2,1].

Example: This is another example that illustrates the displaying of an object in a reverse sorted /descending order based on key.

HTML

<!-- app.component.html -->
<h2 style="color: green">GeeksforGeeks</h2>
<h2>
  How to render an object in a reverse
  sorted /descending order based 
  upon key in Angular
</h2>
<div *ngFor="let item of gfg">
    <b>Key:  </b>{{item.key}}  
      <b>Value :  </b>{{item.value}}
</div>

JavaScript

// app.component.ts
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { KeyValue } from '@angular/common';
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    templateUrl: "./app.component.html",
    styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
    gfg: any =
        [
            { key: "3", value: "Java" },
            { key: "4", value: "React" },
            { key: "2", value: "C++" },
            { key: "1", value: "HTML" },
            { key: "7", value: "Python" },
            { key: "9", value: "CSS" },
            { key: "8", value: "Javascript" },
            { key: "5", value: "Angular" }
        ]

    gfg2: any
    console = console

    ngOnInit() {
        this.gfg.sort(function (a: any, b: any) {
            return b.key - a.key;
        })
        console.log(this.gfg)
    }
    keepOrder() {
        return 0;
    }
}

JavaScript

// app.module.ts
import { NgModule } 
    from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } 
    from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { HttpClientModule }
    from '@angular/common/http';
import { AppComponent }
    from './app.component';

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
        AppComponent
    ],
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        HttpClientModule,
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }