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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Write a Template Literal

Posted by christine marshall
christine marshall
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this thing is still not working please help new code

app.js 
const flavor = "Blueberry";
const type = "Smoothie";
const price = 4.99;

const drink = `${flavor} + ${type}`:`$${price}`;

1 Answer

Josh Nussbaum
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Josh Nussbaum
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Josh Nussbaum
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Josh Nussbaum
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,472 Points

Hi, Christine! With template literals, you can put everything inside of the backticks. With normal string concatenation, you have to use the + operator to combine multiple strings, but with template literals you can just throw in all in and it will do the heavy lifting for you.

It looks like you made a separate template literal for your 'price' variable. You can also remove the '+' sign as they will be combined automatically. Try this: 

const flavor = "Blueberry";
const type = "Smoothie";
const price = 4.99;

const drink = `${flavor} ${type} : $${price}`;

console.log(drink); 
// returns Blueberry Smoothie : $4.99

Hope this helps!