Question

In meteor I can set various template helpers like this:

Template.story.title = function () {
  return "title";
};
<template name="story">
  <h3>{{title}}</h3>
  <p>{{description}}</p>
</template>

Which is great but, if I have a lot of variables I wouldn’t want to set them individually, I want to pass the context to the main template.

How do I do that?

Template.story.data = function () {
  return {title:"title", description:"desc"};
};
<template name="story">
  <h3>{{title}}</h3>
  <p>{{description}}</p>
</template>

That doesn’t work. THanks

Answer 1

You can set the context of the template when you call it:

{{> story data}}

Template.outerTemplate.data = function() { 
  return {title:"title", description:"desc"};
}

Or you can just use {{#with}} to set the the template context on the fly:

{{#with data}}
  {{title}}
{{/with}}