Following code snippet is used on Mozilla (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals) to explain Tagged Template literal
, please help me understand what following function is doing, i am unable to get the actual flow of the function, since they have used keys.foreach
and when i inspected in Chrome, keys was a function, so not able to understand
function template(strings, ...keys) {
return (function(...values) {
var dict = values[values.length - 1] || {};
var result = [strings[0]];
keys.forEach(function(key, i) {
var value = Number.isInteger(key) ? values[key] : dict[key];
result.push(value, strings[i + 1]);
});
return result.join('');
});
}
var t1Closure = template`${0}${1}${0}!`;
t1Closure('Y', 'A'); // "YAY!"
var t2Closure = template`${0} ${'foo'}!`;
t2Closure('Hello', {foo: 'World'}); // "Hello World!"
Most of the complexity in the example comes from the overloaded function and the forEach
invocation, not from the tagged template literals. It might better have been written as two separate cases:
function dictionaryTemplate(strings, ...keys) {
return function(dict) {
var result = "";
for (var i=0; i<keys.length; i++)
result += strings[i] + dict[keys[i]];
result += strings[i];
return result;
};
}
const t = dictionaryTemplate`${0} ${'foo'}!`;
t({0: 'Hello', foo: 'World'}); // "Hello World!"
function argumentsTemplate(strings, ...keys) {
is (!keys.every(Number.isInteger))
throw new RangeError("The keys must be integers");
return function(...values) {
var result = "";
for (var i=0; i<keys.length; i++)
result += strings[i] + values[keys[i]];
result += strings[i];
return result;
};
}
const t = argumentsTemplate`${0}${1}${0}!`;
t('Y', 'A'); // "YAY!"