Generating all permutations of a given string

Question

What is an elegant way to find all the permutations of a string. E.g. permutation for ba, would be ba and ab, but what about longer st

Answer 1

String permutaions using Es6

Using reduce() method

const permutations = str => {
  if (str.length <= 2) 
  return str.length === 2 ? [str, str[1] + str[0]] : [str];
  
  return str
    .split('')
    .reduce(
      (acc, letter, index) =>
        acc.concat(permutations(str.slice(0, index) + str.slice(index + 1)).map(val => letter + val)),
      [] 
    );
};

console.log(permutations('STR'));