Custom Puzzles: Less than symbol must be escaped in template literal

Hi Yuri,
This issue occurred in the pre2 build. I can email a copy of the project with the error if you want to look into it.
This is not a high priority since there is an easy workaround. Also, I do not know if the issue is with Verge3D or in the core Blockly code.
I do like the enhanced error messages in pre2. The error message made locating the issue easy.
Thank you

Hi Yuri,
I removed all of the customer information, so I can post it here in the forums. The project is attached here. The code is simple. It compares two number inputs with the less than operator “<“. You can see the error message in the Chrome dev tools console in one of the attached screenshots.

Remove line 23 of the ‘isLessThan.block’ file and Uncomment line 24 and the block should work.

Using the greater than symbol “>” causes a different parser error.

Using Unicode escapes is a workaround.

On a related subject, I would like a design pattern that would allow me to get my code (rather than the API code) out of string literals. VSCode does not apply Intellisense to the code in a string literal. The editor will not match brackets, quote marks, check syntax, etc. The best approach that I found was to first implement and de-bug my code outside of the puzzle system in app.ExternalInterface and then copy the working code into the puzzle system.

Still, puzzle plugins are a great solution for us! Thank you.