Use Collection in reactiveTable helper instead of helper return collection about reactive-table HOT 4 CLOSED

I like the idea but I don't think it's possible with Handlebars. You have to do something to make the collection variable available from the template. Open to suggestions on how to do this...

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You should be able to do this window[name] in the javascript implementing the {{reactiveTable}} handler.

I do it all the time.

Here is an example of a getRecord from a page that for example might not have a this or data available. Not the best example but it works and works on any page so that I don't have to write any javascript. I have dozens of helpers like this....

{{getRecord Customers}}

Handlebars.registerHelper('getRecord', function(name){
    if(name){
      return window[name]['getRecord']();
    }else{
      return window[Meteor.request.controller.capitalise()]['getRecord']();
    }
});

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That only works because you're using global variables, which generally is a bad practice. It would be nice if there was an easier way to control the variables accessible to the template without having to write lots of template helpers, but I don't want to encourage global variables.

If you really want to do it this way, you could just write your own helper that gets your variable from the window, and then passes it to the reactive-table helper.

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Good point, I could just write my own helpers to wrap it.

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