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

To unescape HTML entities* in JavaScript you can use small library html-escaper: npm install html-escaper

import {unescape} from 'html-escaper';

unescape('escaped string');

Or unescape function from Lodash or Underscore, if you are using it.

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*) please note that these functions don't cover all HTML entities, but only the most common ones, i.e. &, <, >, ', ". To unescape all HTML entities you can use he library.