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:
For the next examples, we will create a file called
examples.htmlin ourmy-meteor-blog/client/templatesfolder and add the following code snippet:<template name="contextExample"> <p>{{someText}}</p> </template>Now that we have our
contextExampletemplate, we can add it to ourhometemplate 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
contextExampletemplate 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,...