a solution to sort pages via specific sort order

[mpalpha]

is there an official solution to sort pages via a specific sort order?

currently I am using this custom helper I wrote.
https://gist.github.com/mpalpha/ff22e4858bc7e4e724b3c4f3b7338b82

which is parsing the data provided by file tree path parser task via gulp plugins
https://gist.github.com/mpalpha/55ed4a712f40304fb7a164b6114614df