JS Concatenation

I'm working with a sample API in JavaScript. My code is the following:

let index = 4;
let api = "https://dummyjson.com/products/${index}";

function fetchData() {
    let img = document.getElementById("product-img")
    let title = document.getElementById("product-title")
    let price = document.getElementById("product-price")
    let desc = document.getElementById("product-desc")

    fetch(api)
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => {
        console.log(data);
        img.src = data.thumbnail;
        title.innerHTML = data.title;
        price.innerHTML = "$" + data.price;
        desc.innerHTML = data.description;
    })
}

let index = 4;
let api = "https://dummyjson.com/products/${index}";

function fetchData() {
    let img = document.getElementById("product-img")
    let title = document.getElementById("product-title")
    let price = document.getElementById("product-price")
    let desc = document.getElementById("product-desc")

    fetch(api)
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => {
        console.log(data);
        img.src = data.thumbnail;
        title.innerHTML = data.title;
        price.innerHTML = "$" + data.price;
        desc.innerHTML = data.description;
    })
}

Line 2, let api = "https://dummyjson.com/products/${index}"; doesn't work correctly. From my understanding, this is a template literal which acts similarly to concatenation? When I replace this line with: let api = "https://dummyjson.com/products/" + index;, it works correctly. Am I using the ${} incorrectly?

2 Replies

Jochem•14mo ago

template literals use backticks instead of double quotes the one left of 1 on a QWERTY keyboard so

let api = `https://dummyjson.com/products/${index}`;

let api = `https://dummyjson.com/products/${index}`;

Matt•14mo ago

ahh okay thank you for the clarification I did notice a format change when adding the backticks, previously it looked like an entire string

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