EJS: ReferenceError: include is not defined

[berkant]

Expected behaviour

Was expecting no errors and script to include the includee.

Current behaviour

ERROR in Template execution failed: ReferenceError: include is not defined

ERROR in   ReferenceError: include is not defined

Environment

Tell us which operating system you are using, as well as which versions of Node.js, npm, webpack, and html-webpack-plugin. Run the following to get it quickly:

Node.js v10.15.3
System: linux 4.18.0-17-generic
NPM v6.4.1
webpack@4.32.0
html-webpack-plugin@3.2.0

Config

Copy the minimal webpack.config.js to produce this issue:

module.exports = {
	entry: {
		index: './src/index/main.js',
		// privacy_policy: './src/privacy-policy/main.js'
	},

	output: {
		path: buildPath,
		filename: '[name].[hash:8].js'
	},

	optimization: {
		minimizer: [new OptimizeCSSAssetsPlugin()]
	},

	plugins: [
		// Cleans dist directory.
		new CleanWebpackPlugin(),

		// Perform actions as pre and post hooks.
		new FileManagerPlugin({
			onEnd: {
				delete: ['dist/*.js'],
				copy: [{ source: 'src/robots.txt', destination: 'dist/' }]
			}
		}),

		// Index Page
		new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
			// Don't include these assets in build artifacts.
			excludeAssets: [/.+\.js/],

			// HTML minify options:
			minify: {
				collapseWhitespace: true,
				removeComments: true,
				removeRedundantAttributes: true,
				removeScriptTypeAttributes: true,
				removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: true,
				useShortDoctype: true
			},
			template: '!!ejs-loader!src/index/main.ejs',
			filename: 'index.html'
		}),

		new HtmlWebpackExcludeAssetsPlugin(),

		new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
			filename: 'bundle.[hash:8].css'
		}),
		
		// new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
		// 	_: 'underscore',
		// }),
	],

	module: {
		rules: [
			{
				test: /\.css$/,
				use: [MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader, 'css-loader']
			},
		]
	}
};

Copy your template file if it is part of this issue:

main.ejs:

<%- include('../components/top') %>

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Additional context

I tried inlining the loader by doing: template: '!!ejs-loader!src/index/main.ejs' which failed. And also tried setting the loader in rules as below but failed as well:

{
	test: /\.ejs$/,
	use: 'ejs-loader',
}

[jantimon]

The ejs-loader does not provide a include function