Javascript Object.keys(arr).reduce() return lowest key

Because you have 2 sort conditions so they have to be put in a certain order. From your examples I assume that order is: "biggest value" -> "smallest date". Then your if will become like below:

getEarliest = (dates) => {
  return Object.keys(dates).reduce(
    (prev, curr) => {
      if (dates[curr] > prev.val || (dates[curr] === prev.val && curr < prev.date)) {
        return {
          val: dates[curr],
          date: curr,
        }
      } else {
        return prev
      }
    },
    {
      val: 0,
      date: null,
    }
  )
}

Looks like you need just sort object by two parametrs:

const test1 = {};
const test2 = { '2022-04-29': 1 };
const test3 = { '2022-04-29': 3, '2022-04-30': 2, '2022-04-28': 3, '2022-05-02': 2 };
const test4 = { '2022-04-29': 4, '2022-04-28': 4, '2022-04-30': 4, '2022-05-02': 2 };

  
const getEarliest = (dates) => {
  const [date, val] = Object.entries(dates)
    .sort(([k1, v1], [k2, v2]) => v2 - v1 || Date.parse(k1) - Date.parse(k2) ) 
    .at(0) ?? [null, 0];

  return { val, date };
};

console.log(getEarliest(test1));
console.log(getEarliest(test2));
console.log(getEarliest(test3));
console.log(getEarliest(test4));
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And the same result with reduce:

const test1 = {};
const test2 = { '2022-04-29': 1 };
const test3 = { '2022-04-29': 3, '2022-04-30': 2, '2022-04-28': 3, '2022-05-02': 2 };
const test4 = { '2022-04-29': 4, '2022-04-28': 4, '2022-04-30': 4, '2022-05-02': 2 };

  
const getEarliest = (dates) => {
  const [date, val] = Object.entries(dates)
    .reduce((prev, curr) => (curr[1] - prev[1] || Date.parse(prev[0]) - Date.parse(curr[0])) > 0  
      ? curr 
      : prev
    , [null, 0]);
  
  return { val, date };
};

console.log(getEarliest(test1));
console.log(getEarliest(test2));
console.log(getEarliest(test3));
console.log(getEarliest(test4));
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