new Date() error

[Daniel Santos]

I have this index.ejs file:

<p>
<% new Date().getFullYear(); %>
</p>

and it is not outputing the date.

I also tried this:

<p>
<%= new Date().getFullYear(); %>
</p>

and it gave me this error:

tinyjam v0.4.0

compile index.ejs
undefined:4
` + _esc(_str( new Date().getFullYear(); 
                                      ^

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
    at new Function (<anonymous>)
    at compile (file:///home/daniel/.npm/_npx/3e46eb4798690ec4/node_modules/yeahjs/index.js:30:16)
    at render (file:///home/daniel/.npm/_npx/3e46eb4798690ec4/node_modules/tinyjam/index.js:50:26)
    at tinyjam (file:///home/daniel/.npm/_npx/3e46eb4798690ec4/node_modules/tinyjam/index.js:40:13)
    at file:///home/daniel/.npm/_npx/3e46eb4798690ec4/node_modules/tinyjam/cli.js:22:5
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:195:25)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async ESMLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:337:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:88:5)
    at async handleMainPromise (node:internal/modules/run_main:65:12)

Node.js v17.3.0

I am on a ArchLinux machine and I have installed tinyjam using npx tinyjam.
I also run tinyjam using npx tinyjam.

I am running as such:

cd my-website/
npx tinyjam . public/

[Volodymyr Agafonkin]

It's because of the ; — when you use <%= for outputting a value, it expects a valid JS expression (e.g. something that can be surrounded with parens).