ES6 String Enhancements: Methods, Template Literals, and Tagged Templates

String Methods in ES6 JavaScript strings are based on UTF-16 encoding, where each code unit occupies 2 bytes. Characters within the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+0000 to U+FFFF) fit in one code unit, while supplementary characters require two. charAt and charCodeAt charCodeAt returns the UTF-16 code unit at a given index, while charAt returns the ...

Posted on Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:06:03 +0000 by britt15