New to Meteor, I cannot see why this breaks

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So what I am trying to do is display data about a dancer in the dancer template.
There is another collection called comments, that can return zero to many comments for a given dancer.

dancer template is called and displays but {{#each thecomment}} never returns


	

		
	

	
	

	{{#each thecomment}}
		{{> commentArea}}
	{{/each}}





	

		This line should display even if nothing is returned from helper
		{{comment}}
	





	{{#each adancer}}
		{{> dancer}}
	{{/each}}



*************Helper

Template.commentEntertainer.helpers({
	adancer:  function (){
		$( '#workcolumn' ).empty();
		return AllDancers.find({_id: Session.get('whichDancer')});
	},
	thecomment: function (){
		console.log(AllDancerComments.find({entertainerId: Session.get('whichDancer').toString()}));
		return AllDancerComments.find({entertainerId: Session.get('whichDancer').toString()});
	}
});

Thanks for your help.

2

There’s a stray </div> tag in there. You should be really getting: “Your application is crashing …”. (Check in the terminal that this is not the case!)

There are a number of reasons why the comments might not be showing:

  • documents from AllDancerComments collection not published to client
  • Session.get(‘whichDancer’) not set to an entertainerId value
  • entertainerId value not set on comment documents
  • comment field not set on comment documents