[SOLVED] How to clean up a Template instance manually?

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I see Blaze.remove(viewInstance) in the docs, but not anything about removing Template instances directly. Does Blaze.remove(viewInstance) also clean up the Template instance associated with that view?

Template.selfDestruct.onRendered(function() {
  setTimeout(() => Blaze.remove(this.view), 10000)
})

?

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I answered my own question. It works, kaboom is outputted to the console:

<template name="selfDestruct">
  <div>destroy self</div>
</template>

Template.selfDestruct.onRendered(function() {
  setTimeout(() => Blaze.remove(this.view), 10000)
})

Template.onDestroyed(function() {
  console.log('Kaboom!')
})

It might be nice to have the docs mention that Blaze.remove() also cleans up the template instance.

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