how to disable the back-tick `

[jay-meister]

Back-ticks are useful for writing sql queries that can span multiple lines without lots of these: ' \n + '. We are not using es6 template literals so it will still make sense to any one seeing the code.

I am struggling to ignore it though.

`` //eslint-disable-line

It still gives me the error unexpected token '`'

Assistance much appreciated.

[nelsonic]

@JMurphyWeb I agree that ` (back tick) could be useful for multi-line SQL queries. ✅ If you are able to investigate this further, please do. 🔎

[eliasmalik]

@JMurphyWeb are you sure backticks are valid ES5? I'm not so sure. I think the unexpected token error you're seeing is because we've set ecmaVersion: 5 and so all ES6 syntax is treated as a syntax error.

Another way to do multi-line strings without + string concatenation is with Array.join:

var query = [
  'SELECT * FROM foo',
  'WHERE bar=$1',
].join(' ');

[jay-meister]

I didn't know that you had defined the version, and that it could not be ignored, so thanks for pointing that out.