You can render strings that use ejs tags

[jcubic]

<% "<% %>" %>

This should work. In comparison JavaScript template literals have no issue with object literals inside:

`say: ${{toString: () => "hello"}} world`

To fix this, you need a JavaScript parser.

[RyanZim]

This is what we have literal tags for: https://github.com/mde/ejs/blob/main/docs/syntax.md#literal-tags