I have the following code in Ruby. I want to convert this code into JavaScript. What is the equivalent code in JS?
text = <<"HERE"
This
Is
A
Multiline
String
HERE
heredocjavascriptmultilinestring
I have the following code in Ruby. I want to convert this code into JavaScript. What is the equivalent code in JS?
text = <<"HERE"
This
Is
A
Multiline
String
HERE
Best Answer
Update:
ECMAScript 6 (ES6) introduces a new type of literal, namely template literals. They have many features, variable interpolation among others, but most importantly for this question, they can be multiline.
A template literal is delimited by backticks:
(Note: I'm not advocating to use HTML in strings)
Browser support is OK, but you can use transpilers to be more compatible.
Original ES5 answer:
Javascript doesn't have a here-document syntax. You can escape the literal newline, however, which comes close: