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Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor

You're reading from   Building Single-page Web Apps with Meteor Build real-time single page apps at lightning speed using the most powerful full-stack JavaScript framework around

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Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988129
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Meteor 2. Building HTML Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing Data and Handling Collections 4. Controlling the Data Flow 5. Making Our App Versatile with Routing 6. Keeping States with Sessions 7. Users and Permissions 8. Security with the Allow and Deny Rules 9. Advanced Reactivity 10. Deploying Our App 11. Building Our Own Package 12. Testing in Meteor A. Appendix Index

Setting the data context for a template


Now that we've seen how we can display data using a helper, let's see how we can set the whole data context of a template:

  1. For the next examples, we will create a file called examples.html in our my-meteor-blog/client/templates folder and add the following code snippet:

    <template name="contextExample">
      <p>{{someText}}</p>
    </template>
  2. Now that we have our contextExample template, we can add it to our home template by passing some data as follows:

    {{> contextExample someText="I was set in the parent template's helper, as an argument."}}

    This will show the text in the contextExample template because we were displaying it using {{someText}}.

    Tip

    Remember that filenames don't really matter as Meteor is collecting and concatenating them anyway; however, the template name matters since we use this to reference templates.

    Setting the context in HTML is not very dynamic, as it is hardcoded. To be able to dynamically change the context,...

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