[brockers]

Can someone tell me what possible value this has?

[doomslice]

They're called tagged templates: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Apart from the other examples, I've also seen them be used for internationalization. http://i18n-tag.kolmer.net/

[naranha]

It can be used for escaping values for example

var query = sql`select * from user where id=${id}`

Similar for html, preventing injection. You just need to implement the corresponding functions.

For example https://github.com/felixfbecker/node-sql-template-strings

[rbrcurtis]

I don't see how this is better than

var query = sql(`select * from user where id=${id}`);

[basil-rash]

In this case the sql function can not escape the id. If you were to use a tagged template, it could.

[egeozcan]

In your example, you get the concatenated string. If you use the tags, you can access the parts.

[naranha]

Yes that's something the author does not explain well. sql is not a normal function but a special template "handler" with fixed parameters.

[gramstrong]

It's just a tiny language feature, removing the parenthesis is not the point of the template literal. FWIW, I like the way it looks for styled-components:

  const NameTag = styled.div`
    font-size: 12pt;
    margin: 3px;
  `;

[toast0]

Someone wandered in from perl5? (I say that as a person who enjoys perl)

[blktiger]

Look at what this does with the feature - https://polymer.github.io/lit-html

[rhacker]

I saw that a while back, now I know how they did that!

[robmaister]

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