Visual Studio does not recognize ES6 template strings

Question

I have issues getting both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2013 to recognize the special syntax of template strings (ES6):

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio 2013

What am I missing?

Answer 1

This should be working now, there is no issue for basic examples in VSCode 1.14.0

I suspect they were just a bit late to the backtick party. There are however still many unclosed issues relating to things like better support for template grammars and language support in ES6 template strings so it appears there is much work to do for advanced capabilities being included.

Answer 2

Try to use back ticks (`), not single or double quotes

var name = 'Walton';
console.log(`Hi ${name}`);