Is there a way to pass variables into templates in Meteor?

Question

I\'ve been experimenting with Meteor and ran into something I couldn\'t figure out. For fun, I was trying to make a slot machine. I had the following HTML:

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Answer 1

All of the previous answers are overkill or outdated. Here's how you can pass static parameters into templates, directly from HTML+Spacebars code, as of Meteor 0.8.x:

  {{> slot number="1"}}
  {{> slot number="2"}}
  ...

All you have to do is pass key="value" parameters in the {{> template}} inclusion call:

{{> slot number="1"}}

Learn more at Spacebars Secrets: Exploring Meteor Templates.

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If you want to pass the caller template's data to the child/nested/called template, here's how to do it: pass nothing. Instead, from the nested template, access the parent data context, ../:

  {{> slot number="1"}}
  {{> slot number="2"}}
  ...