Setting up the post route

To be able to show a full post page, we need to create a post template, which can be loaded when the user clicks on a post.

We create a file called post.html inside our my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder with the following template code:

<template name="post">
  <h1>{{title}}</h1>
  <h2>{{description}}</h2>

  <small>
    Posted {{formatTime timeCreated "fromNow"}} by {{author}}
  </small>
  
  <div class="postContent">
    {{#markdown}}
{{text}}
    {{/markdown}}
  </div>
</template>

This simple template displays all the information of a blog post and even reuses our {{formatTime}} helper we created earlier in this book from our template-helper.js file. We used this to format at the time the post was created.

We can't see this template yet, as we first have to create a publication and route for this page.

Creating a single-post publication

In order to show the full post's data in this template, we need to...