Simplifying JavaScript

Tip 4

Convert Variables to Readable Strings with Template Literals

In this tip, you will learn how to convert variables into new strings without concatenation.

Strings are messy. That’s all there is to it. When you’re pulling information from strings, you have to deal with the ugliness of natural language: capitalization, punctuation, misspellings. It’s a headache.

Collecting information into strings is less painful, but it can still get ugly quickly. Combining strings in JavaScript can be particularly rough, especially when you combine strings assigned to variables with strings surrounded by quotes.

Here’s a situation that comes up all the time: You need to build a URL. In this case, you’re building a link to an image on a cloud ...