Sort array items and preserve order of same elements

Theoretically before sorting you could keep track of its index in the array and take that into account when sorting.

var sortArray = yourarray.map(function(data, idx){
    return {idx:idx, data:data}
})

sortArray.sort(function(a, b) {
  if (a.data.name < b.data.name) return -1;
  if (a.data.name > b.data.name) return 1;
  return a.idx - b.idx
});

var answer = sortArray.map(function(val){
    return val.data
});