Embed User Name in Url with Iron Router

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I suggest going back to using the pathFor helper - it removes the need for extra unnecessary code.

Also to assign your data a name:

 this.route('profile',{
   path:'/:userName',
    data: function () {
     return {
       userName: Profiles.findOne({userName: this.params.userName})
     }
   }
 });

Usage in HTML: <a href="{{pathFor route='profile' data=userName}}"></a>

Also the simplest way to get the hand icon and disable/override the default action is to just set the href attribute to be empty: href=""

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One more thing I forgot to add: event.preventDefault is for event maps, not helpers.