Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

Question

I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form:

Answer 1

You can use Lodash unescape / escape function https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.5#unescape

import unescape from 'lodash/unescape';

const str = unescape('fred, barney, & pebbles');

str will become 'fred, barney, & pebbles'