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by Anchal Sachdeva

JavaScript

function mapOrder (array, order, key) {
  
  array.sort( function (a, b) {
    var A = a[key], B = b[key];
    
    if (order.indexOf(A) > order.indexOf(B)) {
      return 1;
    } else {
      return -1;
    }
    
  });
  
  return array;
};


/**
 * Example:
 */

var item_array, item_order, ordered_array;

item_array = [ 
  { id: 2, label: 'Two' },
  { id: 3, label: 'Three' },
  { id: 5, label: 'Five' },
  { id: 4, label: 'Four' },
  { id: 1, label: 'One'}
];

item_order = [{"category_id":1},{"category_id":2},{"category_id":3},{"category_id":4},{"category_id":5}];
item_order = item_order.map(p=>p.category_id)

ordered_array = mapOrder(item_array, item_order, 'id');
console.log("ordered Array ", ordered_array);