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# [Getting Started with Modern JavaScript — Template Literals](https://blog.michaelkaren.dev/javascript-template-literals?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Introduced in 2015 with ECMAScript6, template literals let us dynamically construct strings of text and embedded expressions, even multi-line strings of text, in a more elegant way than concatenation. The syntax is not much different from the old one...

Sep 14, 2020 · 3 min read · blog.michaelkaren.dev  
Updated Aug 22, 2021  
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## Written by

[Michael Karén](https://hashnode.com/@melcor76)

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## Responses 2

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[Peter Thaleikis](https://hashnode.com/@spekulatius)

[Oct 3, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/javascript-template-literals/5f72f5d9f955ec0a130f5ec3/comment/5f78512a7d160d41227d74e4)

Nice, thanks for sharing!

[Thintinos Gerardo Vodonou](https://hashnode.com/@Thintinos)

[Oct 2, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/javascript-template-literals/5f72f5d9f955ec0a130f5ec3/comment/5f7764187d160d41227d6d5e)

Cool article. You didn't just give useful examples for tagged templates that allow us to understand them well. Thanks anyway!

[Michael Karén](https://hashnode.com/@melcor76)

[Oct 3, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/javascript-template-literals/5f72f5d9f955ec0a130f5ec3/comment/5f7764187d160d41227d6d5e#reply-5f7856e09c3b6e4101216662)

Thanks!

I wanted to keep these "getting started" articles as brief as possible to just learn the basics in an easy way. But, I might write more in depth articles or only on tagged templates in the future. I'll see if I can come up with a better example.

[Thintinos Gerardo Vodonou](https://hashnode.com/@Thintinos)

[Oct 3, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/javascript-template-literals/5f72f5d9f955ec0a130f5ec3/comment/5f7764187d160d41227d6d5e#reply-5f785a8a7d160d41227d75ad)

That'll be very good.I would like read these depth future articles.Thank's for consideration,expecting for new awesome articles [Michael Karén](https://hashnode.com/@melcor76)