ES6 Templates

Blake Winton — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:45:00 GMT

One of my favourite upcoming features in ES6 is Template Strings. I’ve used JQuery’s templates in some previous code I’ve worked on, and while it was very useful in finishing the feature on time, it’s aged now and relying on third-party libraries which we don’t have time to keep up to date isn’t the best idea and so we’re in the middle of some work to remove them. So having said that, I’m quite happy to see something similar arriving in the base language, so that we can take advantage of it without having to add any extra code.

As an aside, all the code below was tested in Firefox 34, using the Scratchpad. The comments are pasted in below the code when you select it and choose the Execute » Display menu item or hit Ctrl+L (Cmd+L on Mac). I hear they also work in Chrome, but they didn’t seem to in the version I was running (39.0.2171.95), and I didn’t want to start messing with an --es-staging flag. If someone can confirm whether they work or not, I would certainly appreciate it! :)

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