© Russ Ferguson and Keith Cirkel 2017

Russ Ferguson and Keith Cirkel, JavaScript Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4302-6107-0_14

14. Working with Template Literals

Russ Ferguson and Keith Cirkel2

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(2)London, UK

How Do You Use Template Literals?

Problem

You want to know how to use a template literal in a project.

Solution

Template literals are very similar to template systems like Handlebars. Template literals give you the ability to set placeholders for values and render them at runtime.

The Code

Listing 14-1. Using Template Literals
var characterName = 'Pinky'var quote = `Same thing we do every night ${characterName}!`;console.log(quote) //Same thing we do every night Pinky!

How It Works

Template literals work in a similar way to using a template ...

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