Data with < or > still escaping despite tag configured otherwise

[mikeerickson]

In short, I have the following

This is an encoded variable <%- myVar %>

When the template is rendered, it is escaping the < and > characters

This is an encoded variable <mike>

ejs.render('<%- myVar %>', {myVar: 'mike'})

I am expect output to be

<mike>

What should I be doing to make sure the < and > are actually rendered

[emmyarty]

Your output wouldn't include the angular brackets in the first place since the only brackets there are part of the EJS tag, so I don't think EJS is what's causing your problems here.

Are you trying to create html tags called Mike on the fly? Because you could probably do something like
ejs.render('<%- ``\<${myVar}>`` %>', { myVar: 'mike' });
for that.

Otherwise you'll want them escaped.