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What This Adds In Cloud Code

  • Exposes escape helper used by EJS rendering.
  • Useful when manually escaping user input before template interpolation.

Quick Start

js
const utils = require('ejs/utils');
const escaped = utils.escape(request.params.user_input || '');

API

FunctionParamsReturnsNotes
escape(input)stringstringEscapes unsafe HTML characters.

Practical Example

js
const utils = require('ejs/utils');
const safeName = utils.escape(request.params.name || '');

Failure Modes & Gotchas

  • Use this for HTML escaping only, not full sanitization.