9 Code Assists for Strings and Template Literals

Text manipulation has become more powerful with the introduction of template literals in JavaScript. The JS Assistant offers several code actions to help you work with text, be it strings or template literals:

• Convert string comparison chain to array.includes()

  Replace || value === 'aString' and && value !== 'aString' chains with array.includes().

• Convert string to template literal

  Convert a string to a basic template literal without expressions.

• Convert template literal to string

  Convert a simple template literal without expressions into a string.

• Extract selected text into variable

  Extract the selected text (including expressions from template literals) into a const variable.

• Inline into template

  Inline a string or a basic template literal into an outer template literal.

• Remove unnecessary template literal

  Simplify a template literal with a single inner expression and no prefix or suffix.

• Use string.endsWith()

  string.endsWith() checks if a string ends with another string.

• Use string.startsWith()

  string.startsWith() checks if a string starts with another string.

• Merge string concatenation

  Merge string and template literal concatenation into a single template literal or string.