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Asked: 2026-06-15T09:06:44+00:00

My meteor app has a base.html file like this: <head> <title>MyApp</title> </head> <body> <template

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My meteor app has a base.html file like this:

<head>
  <title>MyApp</title>
</head>

<body>
    <template name="bodyContent">
        {{subContent}}
    </template>
</body>

Next, I define three different templates:

<template name="templateA">Some text</template>
<template name="templateB">Bla bla bla</template>
<template name="templateC">Your highscore is {{score}}</template>

How can I make {{subContent}} so it is able to alternate between one of these three templates at runtime?

Something like:

currentTemplateUsed = 'templateB'

Template.bodyContent.subContent = Template[currentTemplateUsed]

But that doesn’t work. Are there other approaches to achieve this functionality?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should use meteor router, it is able to dynamically change templates. Possible downside is that it can only change one template at a time.

    Alternatively, there’s a bit of info on Meteor’s Handlebars:
    https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Handlebars

    Basically, you have to use the template as a function, and pass data to it in order for Handlebars to parse it, like this:

    var currentTemplateUsed = 'templateC';

var data = {
   score : 12
}

Template.bodyContent.subContent = Template[currentTemplateUsed](data);

    Returns Your highscore is 12

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