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Start your free trialAshish S
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 938 Pointsthis.id = `space-${x}-${y}`;
How does this works? What does this do?
3 Answers
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsThis is a "template literal". Where the tokens made by braces with $ in front are found, the system will replace them with the result of evaluating what is between the braces.
For the example above, if "x" contained 12 and "y" contained 33, then "this.id" would get "space-12-33
".
Heidi Vasterling-Ford
7,806 PointsAshish,
The example Ashley provided in her teachers notes gave me a bit of clarity on the syntax and what we can do with it. Posting below, I hope it's helpful for you too. Essentially Template Literals are 'embedded expressions' or an alternative to concatenating strings.
const name = "Ashley"
const newString = "Hello my name is " + name;
const name = "Ashley"
const newString = `Hello my name is ${name}`;
Kylie Soderblom
3,890 Points"space" is just a string
using concatenation:
this.id = "string-"+ x +"-"+ y;
or using template literals:
this.id = string-${x}-${y}
;
Hamzah Iqbal
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,145 PointsHamzah Iqbal
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,145 PointsSorry to hijack this old post, but what is "space" in this particular case, is it referring to the class object, the constructor or what?
Joe Elliot
5,330 PointsJoe Elliot
5,330 PointsAnswering Hamzah if anyone else needs to know -
space
in this particular case is just a string. It doesn't 'refer' to anything and is merely there to inform us what the numbers afterwards indicate.