Quicksort (also called partition sort and pivot sort) is arguably the most used sorting algorithm. It is the one commonly implemented internally in language runtimes. In this lesson we cover the quick sort algorithm, why is it called quick and how to implement it using TypeScript / JavaScript.
export function quickSort(array) {
array = [...array];
partition(array, 0, array.length);
return array;
}
function partition(array, start, end) {
const length = end - start;
if (length <= 1) return;
// select the pivot
const pivotIndex = start + Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
// move the pivot to the beginning of the array
[array[start], array[pivotIndex]] = [array[pivotIndex], array[start]];
// get the pivot value
const pivot = array[start];
// get the pivot index
let pivotRank = start;
// loop thought the array, swap every number each is smaller
// than the pivor
for (let index = start + 1; index < end; index++) {
if (array[index] < pivot) {
// increase the rank poisition first
pivotRank++;
// swap the current number and rand poisition
[array[index], array[pivotRank]] = [array[pivotRank], array[index]];
}
}
// move the pivot to the pivotRank position
if (pivotRank !== start) {
[array[start], array[pivotRank]] = [array[pivotRank], array[start]];
}
partition(array, start, pivotRank);
partition(array, pivotRank + 1, end);
}
const test = [5, 1, 8, 7, 4, 3, 6, 9];
const res = quickSort(test);
document.write(res);
Simpfily way:
function quickSort (array) {
if (array.length <= 1) {
return array;
}
let pivotIndex = 0;
let pivot = array[pivotIndex];
let less = []
let greater = []
for (let i in array) {
if (i != pivotIndex) {
array[i] > pivot ? greater.push(array[i]): less.push(array[i]);
}
}
return [
...quickSort(less),
pivot,
...quickSort(greater)
]
}
console.log(quickSort([6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 7,9, 8]))