IDEA: scroll parser which uses javascript template literals

[btheado]

This is somewhat related to the particleExplorer discussion in #154, except instead here javascript template literals are used

displayBelowParticle
  templateLiteral
    <ul>
     <li>${this.get("field1")}</li>
     <li>${this.get("field2")}</li>
    </ul>
  templateLiteral scroll
    ul
     li ${this.get("field1")}
     li ${this.get("field2")}
someParticle
 field1 value1
 field2 value2

The subparticles of templateLiteral (without an atom following the cue) will be expanded as a normal javascript template literal. If the first atom is scroll, then it will be called using the tagged functon scroll (i.e. scroll`<subparticles here>` ). The scroll tagged function will convert to html, I guess.

In either case, some variable (like this) above will be set to allow access to the selected particle.

[btheado]

After looking how template literals work in javascript, this idea doesn't seem so appealing anymore. I thought under-the-hood there was some javascript function which can perform whatever substitution the javascript parser performs. But that is not the case and therefore using template literals is likely no better than using eval on a javascript string.

[breck7]

Thanks for following up! I think it's interesting to think out loud about this kind of stuff. Perhaps we should start doing Scroll conferences.