JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="https://gist.github.com/raw/1049426/7ce8175de65d7ffbf89c3f870c9d5d2e26ba0e4a/string.format.js"></script>
<div id="foo"></div>

JavaScript

$('#foo').text(
  "{0}{1}".format(
    '{1}', 'b'
  )
);