[SOLVED] Blaze.render() with Template.contentBlock?

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Hello all! I’m trying to create template views dynamically, so that I can trigger modals etc. more easily. Basically, the idea is that I can have a universal window template, like this:

<template name="windowFrame">
  <div class="framing-classes">
    {{>Template.contentBlock}}
  </div>
<div>

Then you could have the content of a specific window defined in another template:

<template name="myWindow">
  <h1>{{title}}</h1>
  <p>Various stuff and whatnot</p>
</template>

So what I want to do is have a single bit of javascript which will attach Template.windowFrame to the DOM, with Template.myWindow as its contentBlock. Something like:

function makeWindow(contentTemplate, data) {
  var container = Blaze.View("window", function() {
    return Template.windowFrame;
  });
  container.templateContentBlock = Blaze.With(data, function() {
    return Template[contentTemplate];
  });
  Blaze.render(container, document.body);
}

// render Template.windowFrame with Template.myWindow inside it:

makeWindow("myWindow", {title:"Fancy Title"});

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work. The rendered View always has its templateContentBlock set to null. Haven’t been able to get around this. Any suggestions?

2

Are you looking for something like Template.dynamic? http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/template_dynamic

3

Yes, I was, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to do it. The inimitable @dbarrett figured it out, however: https://gist.github.com/devonbarrett/ecbdcde710fbdab980c7