Can Meteor Templates access Session variables directly?

Question

In my Meteor app I find myself writing a lot of things like:

Templates.myTemplate1.isCurrentUser = function() {
  return Session.get(\"isCurrentUser\");
};

         


        

Answer 1

As meteor is currently using handlebars as default templating engine you could just define a helper for that like:

if (Meteor.isClient) {

Template.registerHelper('isCurrentUser',function(input){
  return Session.get("isCurrentUser");
});

}

you can do this in a new file e.g. called helpers.js to keep the app.js file cleaner. Once this helper is registered you can use it in any template by inserting {{isCurrentUser}}