Includes now throwing errors

After updating to the latest version of EJS, I am now getting errors while compiling my EJS templates.

The error message is: SyntaxError: Unexpected token .

I believe the lines causing these issues are include lines such as the following, as when removing such lines the errors cease. <% include ../partials/bootstrap/bootstrap_header.ejs %> <% include ../partials/main_components/head_to_body.ejs %>

I couldn’t find any changes in the changelog which would cause this. Thanks,

[ghost]

Ok, sorry for the lacking research.

For anyone else with the issue, you can change the old version of include: <% include ../partials/bootstrap/bootstrap_header.ejs %> to: <%- include('../partials/bootstrap/bootstrap_header.ejs') %>

[mde]

It’s in the current changelog: “Removed legacy preprocessor include.” That usage of include is leftover from the very old v1, and was left for one major version (and for quite a long time) for backward compatibility.

We are following the semver convention of a major version bump when changing the public API. In fact, this hacky legacy feature was never actually documented in v2, but there were tests for it, so we have done a major version bump to v3. If your app depends on this feature, you can continue to install a v2.x.

Otherwise, you can convert to the modern include function call that is well documented, well supported, and will continue to exist in all future versions of EJS.