Articles Tagged template literal

One thing JavaScript template literals are great at is little blocks of HTML. Like:

// Probably from some API or whatever
const data = {
  title: "Title",
  content: "Content"
};

const some_html = `
  <div class="module">
    <h2>${data.title}</h2>
    <p>${data.content}</p>
  </div>
`;

But that’s still just a string. It’s not ready to append to the DOM just yet. And what if we need references to those elements inside somehow?… Read article “Get References from HTML Built with Template Literals”

You know those super cool backticks-for-strings in new JavaScript?

let emotion = `happy`;
let sentence = `Chris is feeling ${emotion}`;

Besides the variable interpolation in there being mighty handy, the do multi-line strings wonderfully, making them great for chunks of HTML:

const some_html = `
  <div class="module">
    <h2>${data.title}</h2>
    <p>${data.content}</p>
  </div>
`;

In Part 1, I went over various functional-style techniques for cleanly rendering HTML given some JavaScript data. We broke our UI up into component functions, each of which returned a chunk of markup as a function of some data. We then composed these into views that could be reconstructed from new data by making a single function call.

This is the bonus round. In this post, the aim will be to get as close as possible to full-blown, class-based … Read article “Reactive UI’s with VanillaJS – Part 2: Class Based Components”

Last month Chris Coyier wrote a post investigating the question, “When Does a Project Need React?” In other words, when do the benefits of using React (acting as a stand-in for data-driven web frameworks in general), rather than server-side templates and jQuery, outweigh the added complexity of setting up the requisite tooling, build process, dependencies, etc.? A week later, Sacha Greif wrote a counterpoint post arguing why you should always use such a framework for every type of web project. … Read article “Reactive UI’s with VanillaJS – Part 1: Pure Functional Style”

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 … Read article “Template Literals”