fix: the information time object output by npm view should sorted b…

[btea]

…y version

When I execute npm view --json in my local project, the output is as follows:

before	after

References

[wraithgar]

I'm not so sure about this, --json is for computer parsing, not human reading. We do sort the results in what's called the prettyView.

I do have a PR underway to sort the tags by publish date, and to truncate them, so that the pretty view is more useful at a glance. It will be part of npm 11.

ETA: I guess we already sort the versions in this display, so the cat's out of the bag there. It still seems silly formatting json for human display.

[wraithgar]

Draft PR for the pretty view change #7808

[ljharb]

It does also potentially help programmatic use cases, the majority of which might want them in semver order anyways.