How to generate a random string from given characters in JavaScript

In this Article we will go through how to generate a random string from given characters only using single line of code in JavaScript. This is a one-line JavaScript code snippet that uses one of the most popular ES6 features => Arrow Function.

Let's define this short function:

const generateString = (length, chars) => Array(length).fill('').map((v) => chars[Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length)]).join('');

generateString(10, '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ');