Meteor each loop within template

So I'm looking for some understanding on how templates and such work.

I've movie.html file with a template named movies in it, with a movie.js helper that returns a collection.

Movies Template

<template name="movies">
   <li>{{title}}</li>
</template>

JS Helpers

Template.body.helpers({
  movie: function () {
    return Movies.find({});
    }
  });

Now I've another template that does a bunch of other things but one of them is to iterate over this list and display it.

List Template

<template name="list">
    <ul>
        {{#each movie}}
            {{> movies}}
        {{/each}}
    </ul>
</template>

In this situation the list doesn't popular with the data.

However, if I move the contents of the list template outside of a template and just on the main.html it works great!

This is how I used to use it but I've started to use Houston Admin Package which uses Iron:Router so I've moved the main (and only) page to a template for routing purposes, which breaks my looping list.

I'm sure I'm missing something minor but I can't figure it out.

Solution

You are using the {{#each movie}} helper on the list Template so change the Template.helper to the list template

Template.list.helpers({
  movie: function () {
    return Movies.find({});
    }
  });

We are you calling this <template name="list"> on the body tag? you have something like this.

<body>
 {{> list}}
</body>

Or you have something like this.

<template name="layout">
 {{> yield}} <!-- since you are mentioning iron:route package -->
</template>

Or you have a route to that list template? localhost:3000/lists

Router.route('/movie-lists', function () {
  this.render('lists')
});

On whatever of this 3 cases, you should point the helper into the template where you are calling it (in this case list template)