babel-plugin-transform-es2015-template-literals

Compile ES2015 template literals to ES5

Example

In

`foo${bar}`;

Out

"foo" + bar;

Installation

npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-es2015-template-literals

Usage

Via .babelrc (Recommended)

.babelrc

// without options
{
  "plugins": ["transform-es2015-template-literals"]
}
 
// with options
{
  "plugins": [
    ["transform-es2015-template-literals", {
      "loose": true,
      "spec": true
    }]
  ]
}

Via CLI

babel --plugins transform-es2015-template-literals script.js

Via Node API

require("babel-core").transform("code", {
  plugins: ["transform-es2015-template-literals"]
});

Options

loose

In loose mode, tagged template literal objects aren't frozen.

spec

This option wraps all template literal expressions with String. See babel/babel#1065 for more info.

In

`foo${bar}`;

Out

"foo" + String(bar);