How to generate an array of alphabet in jQuery?

Question

In Ruby I can do (\'a\'..\'z\').to_a and to get [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\', \'d\', ... \'z\'].

Do jQuery or Javascript provide a similar construc

Answer 1

A lot of these answers either use an array of characters or String.fromCharCode, I propose a slightly different method that takes advantage of letters in base36:

[...Array(26)].map((e,i)=>(i+10).toString(36))

The advantage of this one is purely code golf, it uses fewer characters than the others.