Help /w JS - Determine if Table Sorted and Sort if not

Situation:

In my app I'm rending a table that Knack will not give me to ability to determine which column is sorted by default. Of course the column I wanted to be sorted, is not. I get get JS to determine if the column is sorted but then I can't get it to actually sort it.

Code using to determine if sorted (I'm new to JS so if this is bad code, feel free to question my intelligence)

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$(document).on('knack-view-render.view_179', function(event,page) {

if ($(".field_178.sorted-asc").length < 1) {

alert("Not Sorted");

}

else {

alert("Sorted");

}

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The alerts are there just to test that it was working and code to sort it would go in there place.

Any thoughts?