I was adding reports to an application and wanted a quick way of sorting the data based on multiple columns, without having to write lots of backend code to do so. Using a JavaScript solution also meant that the re-ordering would be more responsive, provided the dataset wasn’t too big.…

An important part of any web project is to minimise your JavaScript, reducing loading times from downloading the scripts to the browser. We were using Packer for .NET, which supports modes for packing (compressing the JavaScript into a packed function, which then needs to be run on the client to…