Template Literals
Explore how template literals in modern JavaScript let you create dynamic strings easily with variable interpolation and multi-line support. Understand tagged templates for advanced string manipulation, enhancing your code quality and readability in game development.
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Introduced in 2015 with ECMAScript6, template literals let us dynamically construct strings of text, embedded expressions, and even multi-line strings of text in a more elegant way than concatenation.
At first glance, the syntax is not much different from the old one:
const newWay = `is cool`;
Can you spot the difference? Instead of single '' or double "" quotes, we use backticks ``.
String interpolation
In ES5, you had string concatenation:
const name = 'Jack';
const old = 'My name is ' + name + '.';
Using + for both addition and concatenation can be ...