Template literals in Javascript

A sample template literal

const x = `This is template literal`;
console.log(x);

Which will print

Template literal is mainly used in two ways

• String interpolation
• Tagged functions or Tagged templates

In this blog, we will discuss about String interpolation.

const human = {
   age: 28,
   country: 'India'
}
const intro = `My age is ${human.age} and I am from ${human.country}`;
console.log(intro);

We are interpolating the name and age property of human object.

If we try to use single quoted(or double quoted) strings we have to write this:

const intro = 'My age is '+human.age+' and I am from '+human.country;

We can write any javascript logic between the ${ }.

This enable us to write easily understandable logic.

const human = {
   age: 28,
   country: 'India'
}
const intro = `I am ${human.age > 20 ? 'adult' : 'juvenile'}`
console.log(intro);

The equivalent of writing this in single quote

const human = {
   age: 28,
   country: 'India'
}
const intro = 'I am '+ ( human.age > 20 ? 'adult' : 'juvenile' );
console.log(intro);

String interpolation can be useful in React JSX when writing conditional className.
Suppose, we want to apply btn-highlight when the button is to be highlighted and btn as a normal button. We can take the btnas a common word and append -highlight as per condition.

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