How to use iron:router to create a separate link for each item in collection

Question

I'm building a contacts app and I want to make it so that when a contact is selected it links to a page where it displays all the information for that particular person.

How would I go about implementing this? I was considering using a modal however this seems like the preferable option.

Answer 1

The iron router guide covers this and more:

<template name="Post">
  <h1>Post: {{title}}</h1>
</template>

Router.route('/post/:_id', function () {
  this.render('Post', {
    data: function () {
      return Posts.findOne({_id: this.params._id});
    }
  });
});

If you are just starting with meteor though, you should consider flow-router.

Start by reading the Meteor Guide: Routing.