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Yeoman generator.fs.copyTpl - How to output literal '<%'

I'm working on my first Yeoman generator and need to output some literal ejs tags for later processing. I'm able to achieve this by escaping the tag with an additional '%' per the ejs docs (http://ejs.co/). For example:

<%% myModule %>

I can process this without issue using the deprecated generator.template(), and the destination file contains the expected output:

<% myModule %>

However, when I attempt to use generator.fs.copyTpl() to process the same file, I get the following synthax error: 

SyntaxError: Unexpected token %

Do I need to explicitly pass an escape character in the ejs options object? Is there something else I'm missing?

Any ideas? Thank you!

Solution

  • Using <%% just works with ejs and yeoman-generator.

    My guess is that you're not using the latest version of yeoman-generator.

    Run this in your generator project:

    npm install --save yeoman-generator@LATEST

    Also, there's a useful tool called david to detect outdated dependencies.

    npm -g install david
# Then in your project folder
david