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JavaScript Basic and Multiple Line Strings

Posted by Reid Young
Reid Young
Courses Plus Student 14,209 Points

Template literals have no support in IE. So if/when should they be used?

I've noticed that template literals, while awesome, have NO support in IE. That's still a large market share to ignore. For this reason, when, if ever, would one want to use template literals at this time as a web dev?

Thanks, guys!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points

You might want to delay adopting any new technology until it is well supported.

If you're preparing content for the world market, you'll have to be among the last to adopt the newer technologies. Just keep an eye on resources like Can I Use? for when things change.

On the other hand, developers who's consumer base are in a corporate intranet, and where all the browsers can handle the current technology, are probably using these technologies already.

Reid Young
Reid Young
Courses Plus Student 14,209 Points

Thanks, Steven!

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 Points

It's worth noting that using a tool such as Babel can compile your "future" code to supported ES5 syntax. You can see an example here: https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-es2015-template-literals/

Reid Young
Reid Young
Courses Plus Student 14,209 Points

Nice! Thank you for pointing that out.

Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points
Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

Just be aware that in template literals, babel as well as typescript will sometimes compile every tab space to tab characters, which makes the compiled string unreadable. Personally, I prefer using an array and the join method for string templates. It looks fairly nice and the output remains readable.