How to interpolate variables in strings in JavaScript, without concatenation?

Question

I know in PHP we can do something like this:

$hello = \"foo\";
$my_string = \"I pity the $hello\";

Output: \"I pity the foo\"<

Answer 1

well you could do this, but it's not esp general

'I pity the $fool'.replace('$fool', 'fool')

You could easily write a function that does this intelligently if you really needed to