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Asked: 2026-06-03T06:34:28+00:00

This extremely simple Meteor app is throwing a Template is not defined error on

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This extremely simple Meteor app is throwing a Template is not defined error on load. The app is essentially identical to the boilerplate project (meteor create), just split into server/client/public directories.

Meteor seems to be trying to render the Handlebars template tags before the global Template object is actually ready. By the time I can get to the JS console and type “Template”, it is there.

Have I done something wrong, or is this a timing bug?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Hm, perhaps this will solve your issue:

    Note that the body tag includes the template name but not the template:

    <body>
  {{> hello}}
</body>

<template name="hello">
  {{greet}}
</template>

    Also, note that “.greet” refers to {{greet}}:

    if (Meteor.isClient) {
  Template.hello.greet = function () {
    return "Hey!";
  };
}

    So, the issue was that you can’t have a template inside the body. Instead, the body calls the template with {{> hello}} as in the above code.

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