另一个变体(它在IE中工作吗?):

String.prototype.reverse = function() {
    for (i=1,s=""; i<=this.length; s+=this.substr(-i++,1)) {}
    return s;
}

编辑:

这是不使用内置函数的:

String.prototype.reverse = function() {
    for (i=this[-1],s=""; i>=0; s+=this[i--]) {}
    return s;
}

注意:this[-1]保存字符串的长度。

然而，不可能将字符串反向，因为赋值给 单个数组元素不能与String对象(protected?)一起工作。也就是说，你可以赋值，但结果字符串不会改变。

在ECMAScript 6中，你可以在不使用.split(") split方法的情况下更快地反转字符串，展开操作符如下所示:

var str = [...'racecar'].reverse().join('');

保持干燥和简单，傻!!

function reverse(s){
let str = s;
var reverse = '';
for (var i=str.length;i>0;i--){

    var newstr = str.substring(0,i)
    reverse += newstr.substr(-1,1)
}
return reverse;
}

看来我已经迟到3年了…

不幸的是，正如已经指出的那样，你不能。参见JavaScript字符串是不可变的吗?我需要一个“字符串生成器”在JavaScript?

你能做的下一个最好的事情是创建一个“视图”或“包装器”，它接受一个字符串并重新实现你正在使用的字符串API的任何部分，但假装字符串是反向的。例如:

var identity = function(x){return x};

function LazyString(s) {
    this.original = s;

    this.length = s.length;
    this.start = 0; this.stop = this.length; this.dir = 1; // "virtual" slicing
    // (dir=-1 if reversed)

    this._caseTransform = identity;
}

// syntactic sugar to create new object:
function S(s) {
    return new LazyString(s);
}

//We now implement a `"...".reversed` which toggles a flag which will change our math:

(function(){ // begin anonymous scope
    var x = LazyString.prototype;

    // Addition to the String API
    x.reversed = function() {
        var s = new LazyString(this.original);

        s.start = this.stop - this.dir;
        s.stop = this.start - this.dir;
        s.dir = -1*this.dir;
        s.length = this.length;

        s._caseTransform = this._caseTransform;
        return s;
    }

//We also override string coercion for some extra versatility (not really necessary):

    // OVERRIDE STRING COERCION
    //   - for string concatenation e.g. "abc"+reversed("abc")
    x.toString = function() {
        if (typeof this._realized == 'undefined') {  // cached, to avoid recalculation
            this._realized = this.dir==1 ?
                this.original.slice(this.start,this.stop) : 
                this.original.slice(this.stop+1,this.start+1).split("").reverse().join("");

            this._realized = this._caseTransform.call(this._realized, this._realized);
        }
        return this._realized;
    }

//Now we reimplement the String API by doing some math:

    // String API:

    // Do some math to figure out which character we really want

    x.charAt = function(i) {
        return this.slice(i, i+1).toString();
    }
    x.charCodeAt = function(i) {
        return this.slice(i, i+1).toString().charCodeAt(0);
    }

// Slicing functions:

    x.slice = function(start,stop) {
        // lazy chaining version of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/slice

        if (stop===undefined)
            stop = this.length;

        var relativeStart = start<0 ? this.length+start : start;
        var relativeStop = stop<0 ? this.length+stop : stop;

        if (relativeStart >= this.length)
            relativeStart = this.length;
        if (relativeStart < 0)
            relativeStart = 0;

        if (relativeStop > this.length)
            relativeStop = this.length;
        if (relativeStop < 0)
            relativeStop = 0;

        if (relativeStop < relativeStart)
            relativeStop = relativeStart;

        var s = new LazyString(this.original);
        s.length = relativeStop - relativeStart;
        s.start = this.start + this.dir*relativeStart;
        s.stop = s.start + this.dir*s.length;
        s.dir = this.dir;

        //console.log([this.start,this.stop,this.dir,this.length], [s.start,s.stop,s.dir,s.length])

        s._caseTransform = this._caseTransform;
        return s;
    }
    x.substring = function() {
        // ...
    }
    x.substr = function() {
        // ...
    }

//Miscellaneous functions:

    // Iterative search

    x.indexOf = function(value) {
        for(var i=0; i<this.length; i++)
            if (value==this.charAt(i))
                return i;
        return -1;
    }
    x.lastIndexOf = function() {
        for(var i=this.length-1; i>=0; i--)
            if (value==this.charAt(i))
                return i;
        return -1;
    }

    // The following functions are too complicated to reimplement easily.
    // Instead just realize the slice and do it the usual non-in-place way.

    x.match = function() {
        var s = this.toString();
        return s.apply(s, arguments);
    }
    x.replace = function() {
        var s = this.toString();
        return s.apply(s, arguments);
    }
    x.search = function() {
        var s = this.toString();
        return s.apply(s, arguments);
    }
    x.split = function() {
        var s = this.toString();
        return s.apply(s, arguments);
    }

// Case transforms:

    x.toLowerCase = function() {
        var s = new LazyString(this.original);
        s._caseTransform = ''.toLowerCase;

        s.start=this.start; s.stop=this.stop; s.dir=this.dir; s.length=this.length;

        return s;
    }
    x.toUpperCase = function() {
        var s = new LazyString(this.original);
        s._caseTransform = ''.toUpperCase;

        s.start=this.start; s.stop=this.stop; s.dir=this.dir; s.length=this.length;

        return s;
    }

})() // end anonymous scope

演示:

> r = S('abcABC')
LazyString
  original: "abcABC"
  __proto__: LazyString

> r.charAt(1);       // doesn't reverse string!!! (good if very long)
"B"

> r.toLowerCase()    // must reverse string, so does so
"cbacba"

> r.toUpperCase()    // string already reversed: no extra work
"CBACBA"

> r + '-demo-' + r   // natural coercion, string already reversed: no extra work
"CBAcba-demo-CBAcba"

最重要的是——下面是用纯数学来完成的，每个角色只访问一次，而且是在必要的时候:

> 'demo: ' + S('0123456789abcdef').slice(3).reversed().slice(1,-1).toUpperCase()
"demo: EDCBA987654"

> S('0123456789ABCDEF').slice(3).reversed().slice(1,-1).toLowerCase().charAt(3)
"b"

如果应用于一个非常大的字符串，如果您只取其中相对较小的部分，则可以节省大量的时间。

Whether this is worth it (over reversing-as-a-copy like in most programming languages) highly depends on your use case and how efficiently you reimplement the string API. For example if all you want is to do string index manipulation, or take small slices or substrs, this will save you space and time. If you're planning on printing large reversed slices or substrings however, the savings may be small indeed, even worse than having done a full copy. Your "reversed" string will also not have the type string, though you might be able to fake this with prototyping.

The above demo implementation creates a new object of type ReversedString. It is prototyped, and therefore fairly efficient, with almost minimal work and minimal space overhead (prototype definitions are shared). It is a lazy implementation involving deferred slicing. Whenever you perform a function like .slice or .reversed, it will perform index mathematics. Finally when you extract data (by implicitly calling .toString() or .charCodeAt(...) or something), it will apply those in a "smart" manner, touching the least data possible.

注意:上面的字符串API是一个例子，可能不能完美地实现。你也可以只使用你需要的1-2个函数。

只要你处理的是简单的ASCII字符，并且你很乐意使用内置函数，这就可以工作:

function reverse(s){
    return s.split("").reverse().join("");
}

如果您需要一个支持UTF-16或其他多字节字符的解决方案，请注意这个函数会给出无效的unicode字符串，或者看起来很滑稽的有效字符串。你可以考虑一下这个答案。

[…s]是Unicode感知的，一个小的编辑给出:-

function reverse(s){
    return [...s].reverse().join("");
}

真正的答案是:你不能把它颠倒过来，但是你可以创建一个颠倒过来的新字符串。

Just as an exercise to play with recursion: sometimes when you go to an interview, the interviewer may ask you how to do this using recursion, and I think the "preferred answer" might be "I would rather not do this in recursion as it can easily cause a stack overflow" (because it is O(n) rather than O(log n). If it is O(log n), it is quite difficult to get a stack overflow -- 4 billion items could be handled by a stack level of 32, as 2 ** 32 is 4294967296. But if it is O(n), then it can easily get a stack overflow.

有时候面试官还是会问你，“作为练习，你为什么不用递归来写呢?”就是这样:

String.prototype.reverse = function() {
    if (this.length <= 1) return this;
    else return this.slice(1).reverse() + this.slice(0,1);
}

测试运行:

var s = "";
for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
    s += ("apple" + i);
}
console.log(s.reverse());

输出:

999elppa899elppa...2elppa1elppa0elppa

为了尝试获得堆栈溢出，我在谷歌Chrome中将1000更改为10000，它报告:

RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded