Templete renders else block, on reload, renders if

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I have the following template, which is loaded when a user clicks o the “Who osted this” button on a particular post.

<template name="profile">

{{#if existinguser}}
`//other code to render when esitinguser returns true//`
    {{else}}
    <p>This user doesn't exist.</p>
    {{/if}}
</template>

Here’s is existinguser helper:

'existinguser': function() {
    

        if (Meteor.users.find({
                "profile.username": document.URL.split('/')[4]
            }).count() > 0) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    

    }

And the route.js

Router.route('/user/:username', {
    name: 'profile',
    loadingTemplate: 'loading',
    waitOn:function(){Meteor.subscribe('users');
},
    data: function() {
        return Meteor.users.find({
            'profile.username': this.params.username
        });

    
        
    }
});

Now, when the link is clicked, the else block is rendered and the page says This user doesn’t exist, even though it is there in the Users collection.

If I reload the page on the same url, it renders, and shows what ever there is inside the if block.

What might be the problem?

2

Quick question, have you altered the default Meteor.users document structure? If you are using the default accounts-base and accounts-password, then the username property would not be under profile but rather at the top level of the document.

Something similar to this:

{
  _id: "bbca5d6a-2156-41c4-89da-0329e8c99a4f",  // Meteor.userId()
  username: "cool_kid_13", // unique name
  emails: [
    // each email address can only belong to one user.
    { address: "cool@example.com", verified: true },
    { address: "another@different.com", verified: false }
  ],
  ...
}

If whatever that you have is working for you then this would be a classic case of the Publish and Subscribe timing, which iron-router's waitOn options should handle. Anyways, if you need further help, may be a meteor pad example app would help in solving your problem.

3

The issue has been resolved. It was because the link was firing without a complete rendering, it was just transporting, not loading.