Meteor 0.9.x New API

Dan Dascalescu pointed out Meteor now has built-in dynamic templates! This is nice because you do not need to include the extra code as seen in previous versions.

{{> Template.dynamic template=template [data=data] }}

For Meteor 0.8.x Legacy

Dynamic Template Without Data: Boris Kotov's updated Blaze (0.8.0) answer is on the right track (taken from the latest docs), but it doesn't work as-is for me. I got the following to work:

{{> dynamicTemplate name=myDynName}}



<template name=dynamicTemplate>

    {{#with chooseTemplate name}}

        {{> template}}

   {{/with}}

</template>



Template.dynamicTemplate.chooseTemplate = function (name) {

    return { template: Template[name] };

};

I hope there is a simpler solution, but I needed to wrap the Template in a JSON as shown. Maybe this will help someone else to move forward.

Dynamic Template With Data: If you have and want data to be dynamic, be sure to make a helper method that can react. Be sure to do a Session.set() somewhere to see the effect.

// Inside myContainingTemplate

{{> dynamicTemplateWithData name=myDynName data=myDataHelper}}



<template name=dynamicTemplateWithData>

    {{#with chooseTemplate name}}

        {{#with ../data}}

            {{> ..}}

        {{/with}}

    {{/with}}

</template>



Template.dynamicTemplateWithData.chooseTemplate = function (name) {

    return Template[name];

};



Template.myContainingTemplate.helpers({

    myDataHelper: function () {

        Session.get('myReactiveKey');

    }

});