Many good answers here! I consolidated them into one answer and updated some of the code for a more modern syntax:
One-liners inspired by Fawad Ghafoor and Óscar Gómez Alcañiz
function transpose(matrix) {
return matrix[0].map((col, i) => matrix.map(row => row[i]));
}
function transpose(matrix) {
return matrix[0].map((col, c) => matrix.map((row, r) => matrix[r][c]));
}
Functional approach style with reduce by Andrew Tatomyr
function transpose(matrix) {
return matrix.reduce((prev, next) => next.map((item, i) =>
(prev[i] || []).concat(next[i])
), []);
}
Lodash/Underscore by marcel
function tranpose(matrix) {
return _.zip(...matrix);
}
// Without spread operator.
function transpose(matrix) {
return _.zip.apply(_, [[1,2,3], [1,2,3], [1,2,3]])
}
Even simpler Lodash/Underscore solution by Vigrant
_.unzip(matrix);
Vanilla approach
function transpose(matrix) {
const rows = matrix.length, cols = matrix[0].length;
const grid = [];
for (let j = 0; j < cols; j++) {
grid[j] = Array(rows);
}
for (let i = 0; i < rows; i++) {
for (let j = 0; j < cols; j++) {
grid[j][i] = matrix[i][j];
}
}
return grid;
}
Vanilla in-place ES6 approach inspired by Emanuel Saringan
function transpose(matrix) {
for (var i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < i; j++) {
const temp = matrix[i][j];
matrix[i][j] = matrix[j][i];
matrix[j][i] = temp;
}
}
}
// Using destructing
function transpose(matrix) {
for (var i = 0; i < matrix.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < i; j++) {
[matrix[i][j], matrix[j][i]] = [matrix[j][i], matrix[i][j]];
}
}
}