🛠 Tooling: sort package.json

[RebeccaStevens]

Bug Report Checklist

• I have tried restarting my IDE and the issue persists.
• I have pulled the latest main branch of the repository.
• I have searched for related issues and found none that matched my issue.

Overview

Keep package.json sorted to make it easy to quickly find each section.

Additional Info

This can automatically be done with a prettier plugin.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Agreed, package.json should be sorted - and it already is with ESLint! See JoshuaKGoldberg/ts-api-utils#20 https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/ts-api-tools/actions/runs/4107681077/jobs/7089665450:

/home/runner/work/ts-api-tools/ts-api-tools/package.json
Error:   44:4  error  Expected object keys to be in ascending order. 'import' should be before 'types'  jsonc/sort-keys
Error:   54:2  error  Expected object keys to be in ascending order. 'name' should be before 'types'    jsonc/sort-keys

The difference is, I have them sorted in alphabetical order. Which is something I believe in - it's hard to memorize arbitrary sorts for different systems. Alphabetical is a nice predictable standard. What do you think?

Btw, I transferred this issue over from ts-api-tools to this template-typescript-node-package since it impacts all of them.

[RebeccaStevens]

Personally, I think the why sort-package-json sorts things is the better approach than just alphabetical. The ordering it does has kind of become a standard agreed upon by a large number of developers.

It's also doesn't enforce sorting on elements where order matter (such as with the exports field).

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

All right, I filed ota-meshi/eslint-plugin-jsonc#211. The alphabetical ordering feels wrong to me... but so did a lot of good tooling things, such as Prettier. So maybe I'm just being a luddite. Let's try it out! 🚀