strapi-random-sort

Strapi plugin Random Sort

A Strapi plugin to randomly sort the data of a request.

Features

• Randomly sort incoming data without the need of complex middleware
• Simple configuration and works with any endpoint

Installation

To install this plugin, you need to add an NPM dependency to your Strapi application.

# Using Yarn
yarn add strapi-random-sort

# Or using NPM
npm install strapi-random-sort

Configuration

Add configuration to your config/plugins.js file.

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
   // ...
  "random-sort": {
    enabled: true,
  },
  // ...

});

Usage

You can access the new random query parameter on any of your API calls.

Add a ?random=true as a query parameter

Example

http://localhost:1337/api/blogs?random=true

GraphQL

The random=true flag also works on the GraphQL endpoint - add it as a URL query param on the request itself (GraphQL clients can usually set this alongside the endpoint URL):

http://localhost:1337/graphql?random=true

This shuffles the order of whatever page GraphQL returns for each array field in the response (both the default flattened Strapi v5 format and the Relay-style _connection variant are supported). Note that GraphQL resolves its own pagination from the query/variables, so unlike the REST endpoint this can't force a "fetch everything, then repaginate" pass - request a larger pageSize in your GraphQL query if you want randomness across the full dataset rather than just the returned page.