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Ryan Christiani

The Template Literal, introduced in ES6, is a new way to create a string. With it comes new features that allow us more control over dynamic strings in our programs. Gone will be the days of long string concatenation!

To create a template literal, instead of single quotes (') or double quotes (") quotes we use the backtick (`) character. This will produce a new string, and we can use it in any way we want.

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While support for ES6 is always increasing, we can't always assume that users will be using a browser that supports all its features. So, in order to utilize ES6 features now and make sure we won't run into cross-browser compatibility issues, we need to transpile our code.

Let's look at two possible ways we can perform the task of transpiling our code. First, we will use npm scripts and Babel. For the second, we will look at using Gulp with Babel.

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The following is a guest post by Ryan Christiani. Ryan is a teacher at HackerYou and has been working on a video series called Let's Learn ES6. He offered to put some of that together into a tutorial format, which I thought was perfect as we haven't covered ES2015 much here on CSS-Tricks.

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