4commerce:pubsettings-template-helper

This meteorjs package allows you to get access to the objects and values you have stored at Meteor.settings.public within your templates.

So you do not need a number of template helpers by yourself anymore.

Usecase

You want to show the information given by your settings at your client app.

$ export METEOR_SETTINGS="{ public: { about_info: 'Hello World App', version: '1.0' } }"
$ meteor

Alternative you may use --settings option

$ meteor --settings mysettings.json

Before

mytemplate.html:

<template "mytemplate">
  <span>{{about_info}}</span>
  <span>{{version}}</span>
</template>

mytemplate.js:

Template.mytemplate.helpers({
  about_info: function() {
    return Meteor.settings.public.about_info;
  },
  version: function() {
    return Meteor.settings.public.version;
  }
});

With this package

mytemplate.html:

<template "mytemplate">
  <span>{{pubSettings.about_info}}</span>
  <span>{{pubSettings.version}}</span>
</template>

That's it

Installation

You can add this package to your meteor app like any other package from atmosphere

$ meteor add 4commerce:pubsettings-template-helper

Usage

You may address your public settings directly within your templates by just using the relative path from starting at the Meteor.settings.public element.

mytemplate.html:

<template "mytemplate">
  <span>{{pubSettings.about_info}}</span>
  <span>{{pubSettings.version}}</span>
</template>

You also may address the config values by a dotted string argument. So the next example shows equal options

mytemplate.html:

<template "mytemplate">
  <span>{{pubSettings.about_info}}</span>
  <span>{{pubSettings 'about_info'}}</span>
</template>

You may also address deeper elements as normal objects. Let's imaging you have the following settings.json

{
  "public": {
    "application": {
      "version": "1.0",
      "author": {
        name: "My Name",
        email: "mail-address"
      }
    }
  }
}

then you can get those element values in your templates by

<template "mytemplate">
  {{#if pubSettings.application.author}}
    <span>{{pubSettings.application.author.name}}</span>
    <span>{{pubSettings 'application.author.email'}}</span>
  {{/if}}
</template>

Extended usage

For a more sophiticated usage, you even may pass another expression to get the name of the config value to show.

The following example will return either the value for about_info or version whatever the bool expression of foo is:

mytemplate.html:

<template "mytemplate">
  <span>{{pubSettings what_to_show}}</span>
</template>

Template.mytemplate.helpers({
  what_to_show: function() {
    return (foo) ? "version" : "about_info"
  }
});

Additional Packages

If you are looking for an easy and highly flexible configuration management based on the NODE_ENV environment, you should have a look at the 4commerce:env-settings package.

See: https://github.com/4commerce-technologies-AG/meteor-package-env-settings

Issues & help

In case of support or error please report your issue request. The issue tracker is available at: https://github.com/4commerce-technologies-AG/meteor-package-pubsettings-template-helper/issues

Author & Credits

Author: Tom Freudenberg, 4commerce technologies AG

Copyright (c) 2015 Tom Freudenberg, 4commerce technologies AG, released under the MIT license