JSON and Template Literals for multiline strings

Question

I want to store some sql strings in a JSON file. This is how the JSON file looks in my ideal world

[
  "select t.index1, t.title, t.description, t.insertDate
  from myTable t
  join anotherTable t2 on t.index1 = t2.fIndex
  where t2.active = 1",
  ...
]

The obvious limitation is that JSON and javascript don't support multiline strings.

I want to avoid doing this:

[
  "select t.index1, t.title, t.description, t.insertDate\nfrom myTable t\njoin anotherTable t2 on t.index1 = t2.fIndex\nwhere t2.active = 1",
  ...
]    

I saw a guy that did this, which is not ideal either:

[
  ["select t.index1, t.title, t.description, t.insertDate",
  "from myTable t",
  "join anotherTable t2 on t.index1 = t2.fIndex",
  "where t2.active = 1"],
  ...
]

And then in his interpreter program he used myMultilineStringInArrayForm.join("\n").

I was wondering if anyone has any information about Template strings working (or planned to work in the future) for such purpose, like this:

[
  `select t.index1, t.title, t.description, t.insertDate
  from myTable t
  join anotherTable t2 on t.index1 = t2.fIndex
  where t2.active = 1`,
  ...
]

Notice I iused backticks (`) like in Template Literals from ES6, obviously the interpolation of variables would not work for stored JSON, but the multiline feature of this literals is what I am interested in.

Notice that this question is similar to this 6 year old question: Multiline strings in JSON

I asked again because I wanted to know if the ` syntax was planned or already worked since that time.

I appreciate the help with this

Answer 1

Looks like my best choice for having a readable storage format is XML. I was trying to stay away from XML and thought that JSON had multiline strings in its future due to the ` syntax, but no