blowing up strings
// <= ES5
const yourString = "your string here";
const yourDesiredArray = yourString.split( '' );
// => [ 'y', 'o', 'u', 'r', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g', ' ', 'h', 'e', 'r', 'e' ]
// >= ES6+
const yourString2 = "your string here";
const yourDesiredArray2 = [ ...yourString2 ];
// => [ 'y', 'o', 'u', 'r', ' ', 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g', ' ', 'h', 'e', 'r', 'e' ]