While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in ...

Useful for code generators, ESLint autofixers, and other tooling that needs to turn an arbitrary runtime string into JavaScript source code. Escapes backslashes, the quote character, and unsafe ...

Now we come to a confusing twist in the story. JavaScript has Unicode support and all JavaScript strings are UTF-16 coded – this has some unexpected results for any programmer under the impression ...

JSON string syntax already denotes every JS string value: each UTF-16 code unit, including lone surrogates, is reachable via \uXXXX. So this feature adds alternative spellings, not new values. Design ...