Split JavaScript string into array of codepoints? (taking into account “surrogate pairs” but not “grapheme clusters”)

Question

Splitting a JavaScript string into \"characters\" can be done trivially but there are problems if you care about Unicode (and you should care about Unicode).

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Answer 1

Along the lines of @John Frazer's answer, one can use this even succincter form of string iteration:

const chars = [...text]

e.g., with:

const text = 'A\uD835\uDC68B\uD835\uDC69C\uD835\uDC6A'
const chars = [...text] // ["A", "