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What causes Template is not defined in Meteor?

rated 0 times [ 13] [ 3] / answers: 1 / hits: 17050 / 12 Years ago, fri, may 4, 2012, 12:00:00

This extremely simple Meteor app is throwing a Template is not defined error on load. The app is essentially identical to the boilerplate project (meteor create), just split into server/client/public directories.

Meteor seems to be trying to render the Handlebars template tags before the global Template object is actually ready. By the time I can get to the JS console and type Template, it is there.

Have I done something wrong, or is this a timing bug?

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answered 12 Years ago pranavrorys · Accepted Answer

Hm, perhaps this will solve your issue:

Note that the body tag includes the template name but not the template:

<body>

  {{> hello}}

</body>



<template name=hello>

  {{greet}}

</template>

Also, note that .greet refers to {{greet}}:

if (Meteor.isClient) {

  Template.hello.greet = function () {

    return Hey!;

  };

}

So, the issue was that you can't have a template inside the body. Instead, the body calls the template with {{> hello}} as in the above code.