Typescript invalid character when escaping newline?

Question

I have a simple method where I just concatenate a bunch of strings and format it somewhat readably.

info() {
        return    "x:      " + this.xpos.toString() + "\n" \
                + "y:      " + this.ypos.toString() + "\n" \
                + "width:  " + this.width.toString() + "\n" \
                + "height: " + this.height.toString() + "\n";
}

I'm aware the code itself isn't amazing, but when I run tsc , I get the following error:

cli.ts:32:54 - error TS1127: Invalid character.

This occurs for all the lines where there is a \\ to escape the newline. What do I need to do to escape a newline in TS?

Answer 1

In Typescript, you don't need the \\ to be able to break a long line of code into multiple lines like you would in a language like Python. If you remove them, your code will compile again.

Perhaps template strings would help organize this a bit?