How to build a grid with Blaze in Meteor.js? - javascript

I have a collection of items, that I would like to stuff into a bootstrap grid. This then looks like this:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">.col-md-8</div>
<div class="col-md-4">.col-md-4</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">.col-md-8</div>
<div class="col-md-4">.col-md-4</div>
</div>
So I would need to loop through my collection and adding after every second item
There are two issues:
invalid html! No idea how to get around this
Issues with the module, but I think with some helpers I could get around.
Best would be if there were some examples.
Thanks for any inputs

check out this question. you should be searching for handlebars or spacebars to get better results. Blaze is the template engine; not the template system (if that makes sense.)
How do I populate a bootstrap grid system using handlebars for each command in Meteor.js?

Generically, you need to ensure that your collection is exposed to the template, most likely in a template helper. Then you can iterate the collection items like so:
{{#each templateHelperName}}
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">{{propertyName1}}</div>
<div class="col-md-4">{{propertyName1}}</div>
</div>
{{/each}}
To create a template helper, take a look at the meteor docs; they're quite good.
If this doesn't help, perhaps you can provide some more clarity about what your collection looks like, and how you'd like it displayed. Your code doesn't really give much indication.

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Is it necessary to use Vuex for a Vue-based shopping cart?

I want to let two separate Vue components communicate with each other (not siblings, so not child or parent).
Let's assume I have a Laravel blade template file like that:
<div id="app">
<div class="header">
<shopping-cart></shopping-cart>
</div>
<div class="content">
<products-list></products-list>
</div>
</div>
How can I send a product from component to component (putting products to the cart) ?
If you want to get the right solution with the right structure, and it's simple, you have to use the State Manager(Vuex), because it's the best solution.
I wanted to write this in the comment, but I could not because I did not have enough reputation.

Avoid repeating certain html tags while rendering a jquery template

In the following code, users in an array of user objects, which have a name property in them:
$.template("listTemplate", "<ul><li>${name}</li></ul>");
$.tmpl("listTemplate", users).appendTo("#app");
My purpose is to generate a html similar to:
<div id="app">
<ul>
<li>Barney</li>
<li>Cartman</li>
<li>Sheldon</li>
</ul>
</div>
However, I'm stuck with:
<div id="app">
<ul><li>Barney</li></ul>
<ul><li>Cartman</li></ul>
<ul><li>Sheldon</li></ul>
</div>
Is there an elegant way to accomplish this directly with a jquery template, and somehow indicate to the templating engine that <ul> need not be repeated?

viewContentLoaded - Without duplicating code per each controller - AngularJS

Hey all I'm trying to get a feel for angular and have ran into a little snag.
I have a container structure like the following:
<div class="main-container" ng-view>
<!-- The below divs are constantly being
reloaded based on the current URL and it's associated view -->
<div class="left-col">
</div>
<div class="right-col">
</div>
</div>
Before I implemented Angular I just had a simple script that would check the height of the window and set the height of the left column and right column divs accordingly.
With angular there is probably a better way to do this then attaching an event function to the window object. Basically I want to fire a function everytime a new view is rendered but not duplicate the below code in all of my angular controllers like so:
$scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', setColumnHeight);
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I've solved this problem in my app by having a root "Application Controller" at the top of the DOM tree. For example:
<body ng-controller='applicationController'>
...
<div class="ng-view"></div>
...
</body>
applicationController is always there, and can set up bindings on its scope when it is created.
How about putting that event listener on the root scope:
$rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', setColumnHeight);
You could use something like this:
<div class="main-container" ng-view>
{{ setColumnHeight() }}
<!-- The below divs are constantly being
reloaded based on the current URL and it's associated view -->
<div class="left-col">
</div>
<div class="right-col">
</div>
</div>
and it will check the height every time a render is made, however, this seems to be a bit over processing.
The best approach would be to only update the height from both columns when the height of one of them changes. For that you could use DOM Mutation Observers, however they are not yet available on all browsers. If that's not a problem for you, check the mutation-summary lib.
If you are using jQuery you can also try this: https://github.com/jqui-dot-net/jQuery-mutate (examples here).

ExpressionEngine putting Javascript on a page

I am a super beginner to EE and was literally thrust into managing my company's website that is built in EE without training. I'm not a programmer, I'm a designer, so it's been taking me awhile to plug through this. So I might need some dumbed down language :)
I want to create a page that has some Javascript on it. Do I need to create a new template JUST so I can put some javascript on it? And how do I communicate to EE that I want the page I created to go with that template?
I duplicated the page/index template and renamed it to clinician-map (the same name of the page I created in the publisher). EE didn't like that and the page subsequently broke. All I want to do is insert one javascript item, this seems way too inefficient for just one page. Help??
(using EE 1.6.8)
Here is my code from clinician-map template.
{assign_variable:my_weblog="page"}
{assign_variable:my_template_group="page"}
{embed="embeds/html_head" url_title="{segment_2}"}
{embed="embeds/html_styles"}
{embed="embeds/html_scripts"}
<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>
</head>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" limit="1" sort="asc" }
<body class="{url_title}">
{/exp:weblog:entries}
<div id="wrapper">
{embed="embeds/html_headerPlusLeftNav"}
<div id="content">
<div id="contentMain">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" limit="1" sort="asc"}
<h2>{title}</h2>
{page_body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
<!--contactforminfo -->
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
{related_entries id="playa_contentcalloutitems"}
<div class="callout">
<h3>{title}</h3>
{callout_summary}
</div>
{/related_entries}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
{related_entries id="playa_contentfeatureditems"}
<div class="featuredContent">
<h3>{title}</h3>
{exp:word_limit total="50"}
{contentfeatured_summary}
{/exp:word_limit}{if contentfeatured_body!=""}<p><a href='{url_title_path='content-featured/'}' class='more'>Read More</a></p>{/if}
</div>
{/related_entries}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
<div id="contentSub">{related_entries id="playa_contentsubitems"}<div class="item {contentsub_bgcolor}">
{if contentsub_contenttype=="Text or Picture with Text"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
{exp:word_limit total="50"}
{contentsub_summary}
{/exp:word_limit}{if contentsub_body!=""}<p><a href='{url_title_path='content-sub/'}' class='more'>Read More</a></p>{/if}
{if:else}
<h3 class="imgHeader">{title}</h3>
{exp:html_strip convert="y" convert_back="none" keep="a,img"}
{contentsub_summary}
{/exp:html_strip}
{/if}
</div>{/related_entries}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{embed="embeds/html_mailingListSignup"}
</div>
</div>
{embed="embeds/html_footer"}
</div>
</body>
</html>
At glance I can see a couple things that might be confounding you...
You started with a template called 'index' in the 'page' template group.
Looks like the 'page' template you are starting from is meant to display a single entry from the 'page' weblog.
So a request url might look something like this:
http://example.com/page/some_url_title
where 'some_url_title' is the 'url_title' value one of the entries in your 'page' weblog.
Now you have gone and duplicated the index template and called this new template 'clinician-map'.
So you would call an entry through this template at:
http://example.com/page/clinician-map/some_url_title
Now, notice that the first url had 2 segments, while the second had 3 segments?
That's not normally a big deal but the fellow who designed the index template did something that makes it problematic. He is taking the value of segment_2 and passing it through an embed.
So in the first example (index) we are passing the dynamic value "some_url_tile" while in the second example (clinician-map) we are passing "clinician-map". If the embedded template 'html_head' is expecting to get a valid url_title but instead gets the string 'clinician-map' you are likely going to get unexpected results.
Also I don't think we know enough about what you are trying to do to decide if creating a new template is the right approach here. It may be that what you actually need is a new weblog entry or perhaps just a dynamic value inside your existing template.
If it did turn out that a new template is the best approach you could fix the problem I have described by simply replacing segment_2 with segment_3, but I am by no means certain that that is the way you want to go.
I want to create a page that has some Javascript on it. Do I need to
create a new template JUST so I can put some javascript on it?
More specifics would be needed in order to give a solid recommendation but in almost every case, I recommend keeping JavaScript grouped together either in the <head></head> or ideally right before the closing </body> tag if you can get away with it.
Looking at your template code, it appears all the JavaScript is stored in the embeds/html_scripts page. I would add the JavaScript you need to that template. If you only want the JavaScript to appear for certain pages only, I would make use of a conditional (which I'll outline at the end of my answer).
And how do I communicate to EE that I want the page I created to go
with that template?
ExpressionEngine URLs (by default) are assembled as follows:
http://website.com/group/template/url_title
Therefore if you have a page with a url_title of "contact-us", and you wanted that page to use a template in site/pages, you could tell your page to use that template like so:
http://website.com/site/pages/contact-us
That url is obviously fine and dandy for blog articles and such, but it's not that pretty; so ExpressionEngine also enables you to construct "page" based navigation which creates navigation tree based url structures, such as:
http://website.com/contact-us
There are a few third party modules that make it easy to build page navigation such as:
devot-ee.com/add-ons/structure
Using Structure, you specify the default template for each channel and can override the template for each page as well.
I duplicated the page/index template and renamed it to clinician-map
(the same name of the page I created in the publisher). EE didn't like
that and the page subsequently broke. All I want to do is insert one
javascript item, this seems way too inefficient for just one page.
Help??
(using EE 1.6.8) Here is my code from clinician-map template.
There are a number of things I would do different in regards to the template code you provided; however, as a quick fix here's how I would add the one line of JavaScript,
1) Open the embeds/html_scripts template and add the following logic:
{if segment_2 == "my_page_url_title"}
<!-- javascript here -->
{/if}
Note: Here's how segments are determined:
http://website.com/segment_1/segment_2/segment_3
Okay. I ended up just creating a new webblog and new template group and finally it seems like it's working. My javascript is not, but I can figure that out.
Thank you so much for your patience with helping me!

jsRender Recursive Templating

I'm trying implement a way to recursively template using jsRender. The issue is, my data object has a unary self-referencing heirarchy which requires recursive looping to show all of the attributes. The example here is a forum post which can contain any number of reply posts. Each reply post can contain any number of children posts and so on. I have the following code working except for the recursion part. I could only find one remote reference to this via the Googles, so here is what I have thus far:
<script id="forumPostsTemplate" type="text/x-jsrender">
<article class="forumPost">
<header class="forumPostHeader">{{:PostSubject}}
<div class="info">By: Some Person, {{:CreatedDate}} Flag as innapropriate </div>
</header>
<div class="content">
{{:PostContent}}
{{for Replies}}
{{:Replies tmpl="#forumPostsTemplate"}}
{{/for}}
</div>
</article>
</script>
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of functionality? I am currently running the most recent version of jsRender if that helps.
Per this example for jsRender, does it work to call your template like this instead?
https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender/blob/master/demos/step-by-step/06_template-composition.html
{{for Replies tmpl="#forumPostsTemplate"/}}
These three different versions of a tree tag control illustrate exactly that kind of recursion:
http://www.jsviews.com/#samples/tag-controls/tree

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