I might be wrong and either way it's probably too ugly to be serious but
couldn't you, using a template tag, do something like the following:

var template = compile`
Hello ${"first_name"}
`;

template({ first_name: "John" });


- Matthew Robb

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Domenic Denicola <d at domenic.me> wrote:
>
>  You want templates, which is something provided by many libraries
> (Handlebars, etc.). The language provides template strings as a syntactic
> feature.
>
>
>
> Templates and template strings are very different. Don’t be fooled by the
> name into thinking that templates are some sort of natural feature addition
> to template strings; they’re in fact a different concept altogether.
>
>
>
> *From:* es-discuss [mailto:es-discuss-bounces at mozilla.org] *On Behalf Of *Niloy
> Mondal
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 06:48
> *To:* Andrea Giammarchi
> *Cc:* es-discuss at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: how to delay interpolation of template strings?
>
>
>
> Can this be considered for a feature request? Provision in the language to
> dynamically construct template strings and interpolate them.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  irony ... I think you would need to evaluate the template string inline
> in order to interpolate its result ...
>
>
>
> OR
>
>
>
> you just go for this method which also works down to ES3 engine:
>
> https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/8f227532143e63649804
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Niloy Mondal <niloy.mondal84 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   Thanks, this would work.
>
>
>
> How can I construct a template string dynamically? Like reading the
> template from a file/database and then interpolate it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Claude Pache <claude.pache at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>  Le 16 déc. 2014 à 09:27, Niloy Mondal <niloy.mondal84 at gmail.com> a écrit
> :
>
>
>
> I want to define a template string using backquotes in a different file
> and then have it interpolated with actual values in a different file. How
> can I do it?
>
>
>
>
>
> Just enclose it in a function:
>
>
>
> ```javascript
>
>    function foo(a) {
>
>         return `some template ${a}`
>
>     }
>
>
>
>     foo("bar") // will evaluate `some template ${"bar"}`
>
> ```
>
>
>
> —Claude
>
>
>
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I might be wrong and either way it's probably too ugly to be serious but
couldn't you, using a template tag, do something like the following:

```js
var template = compile`
Hello ${"first_name"}
`;

template({ first_name: "John" });
```