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Practical Tagged Template Use Cases

Build safe HTML and styled strings with tags.

Real-World Tags

Tagged templates power many libraries: HTML escaping, styled components, GraphQL queries, and i18n. The shared idea is intercepting interpolated values to process them safely.

function tag(s, ...v) { return s[0] + v[0] + s[1] }
console.log(tag(["<", ">"], "b"))

The Escaping Problem

When you build HTML from user input, special characters like the less-than sign can inject markup. A tag function can escape these characters automatically in the interpolated values only.

const danger = "<script>"
console.log("raw: " + danger)

All lessons in this course

  1. String Interpolation Basics
  2. Multiline Strings
  3. Tagged Template Functions
  4. Practical Tagged Template Use Cases
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