Can I escape html special chars in javascript?

Question

I want to display a text to HTML by a javascript function. How can I escape html special chars in JS? Is there an API ?

Answer 1

If you already use modules in your app, you can use escape-html module.

import escapeHtml from 'escape-html';
const unsafeString = '';
const safeString = escapeHtml(unsafeString);