Ordering

order takes an array of items to order the query by or a sequelize method. Generally you will want to use a tuple/array of either attribute, direction or just direction to ensure proper escaping.

Subtask.findAll({
  order: [
    // Will escape title and validate DESC against a list of valid direction parameters
    ['title', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by max(age)
    sequelize.fn('max', sequelize.col('age')),
    // Will order by max(age) DESC
    [sequelize.fn('max', sequelize.col('age')), 'DESC'],
    // Will order by  otherfunction(`col1`, 12, 'lalala') DESC
    [sequelize.fn('otherfunction', sequelize.col('col1'), 12, 'lalala'), 'DESC'],
    // Will order an associated model's created_at using the model name as the association's name.
    [Task, 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order through an associated model's created_at using the model names as the associations' names.
    [Task, Project, 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by an associated model's created_at using the name of the association.
    ['Task', 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by a nested associated model's created_at using the names of the associations.
    ['Task', 'Project', 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by an associated model's created_at using an association object. (preferred method)
    [Subtask.associations.Task, 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by a nested associated model's created_at using association objects. (preferred method)
    [Subtask.associations.Task, Task.associations.Project, 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by an associated model's created_at using a simple association object.
    [{model: Task, as: 'Task'}, 'createdAt', 'DESC'],
    // Will order by a nested associated model's created_at simple association objects.
    [{model: Task, as: 'Task'}, {model: Project, as: 'Project'}, 'createdAt', 'DESC']
  ]
  // Will order by max age descending
  order: sequelize.literal('max(age) DESC')
  // Will order by max age ascending assuming ascending is the default order when direction is omitted
  order: sequelize.fn('max', sequelize.col('age'))
  // Will order by age ascending assuming ascending is the default order when direction is omitted
  order: sequelize.col('age')
  // Will order randomly based on the dialect (instead of fn('RAND') or fn('RANDOM'))
  order: sequelize.random()
})