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

This is what I have done to achieve it. I am fairly new to Meteor so there may be a better way:

Slot.html:

  



  

    {{> slots}}
  

Slot.js:

if (Meteor.is_client) {
  Template.slots.slots = function () {
    var returnArray = new Array();
    returnArray[0] = { 'number': 10 };
    returnArray[1] = { 'number': 87 };
    returnArray[2] = { 'number': 41 };
    return returnArray;
  };
}

if (Meteor.is_server) {
  Meteor.startup(function () {
    // code to run on server at startup
  });
}

Hope this was some help to you!