meteor-blaze

I have a template in which the DOM is changed, and I would like to rerender the template when saving to database. Before Blaze, Meteor would have rerendered the whole template if there was a reactive variable somewhere in the template, but now how can I do this ? I have a collection of clips set up in an Iron router route : ClipsController = RouteController.extend({ data: function() { clips = Clips.find({}, {sort: {created: 1}}); return {clips: clips}; } }); And a template for clips : <template name="clips"> {{#each clips}} {{> clip}} {{/each}} </template> Then, I have a template for clip :

I have homepage, contact page, and several other product related pages in my app. The goal is to apply a background image to ONLY specifc routes: /homepage and /contact . If user navigates away from either route, apply some css change. I am hacking this together now with a helper on my homepage, like so: Template.homepage.rendered = function () { var route = Router.current(); if ( route.path == '/' ) { document.body.className = "showBackgroundImage"; } }; Partial win here, since this will activate the css, but I need to deactivate when route changes. I have also tried the following within my

How can I reference a template helper from another one? For example... Template.XXX.helpers({ reusableHelper: function() { return this.field1 * 25 / 100; //or some other result }, anotherHelper: function() { if (this.reusableHelper() > 300) //this does not work return this.reusableHelper() + ' is greater than 300'; else return this.reusableHelper() + ' is smaller than 300'; } }); I have also tried Template.instance().__helpers.reusableHelper - all with no luck. Alternatively is there a way to define reactive Template instance variables? XXX is a sub-template that renders multiple times on the