Feature proposal: Render Locally Scoped Templates

I have started to use https://github.com/nathantreid/blaze-modules and thought that flow-router-extra could support scoped templates in it’s this.render() method.

Namely, I suggest to allow providing full template instances (and not just template names) in the layout and/or template parameters. And since there might be several templates rendered simultaneously, maybe let the ‘template’ contain multiple templates?

For example what I do now:

// routes.js
import { LayoutWebsite } from '/imports/ui/layouts/website';
import { ApiWebsiteLanding } from '/imports/api/website/landing';

...

landingPage.route('/', {
  name: 'landing',
  action(params, queryParams) {
    BlazeLayout.render(LayoutWebsite, {
      ComponentDynamic: ApiWebsiteLanding,
    });
  }
});

// website.html
<component name='LayoutWebsite'>
  <div id='layouts-website'>
    {{> SomeHeader}}
    <div id='content' >
      {{> ComponentDynamic}}
    </div>
    {{> SomeFooter}}
  </div>
</component>

For this to work I have hacked a bit blaze-layout, but it could be great if someone with more experience with flow-router and blaze-layout could do this properly.

[vblagomir]

@dr-dimitru we might close this for now and when I check it I could reopen when I come back to the project I worked on.

[vblagomir]

I have updated to 1.5.1 and informed a developer of blaze-modules about update (as there are some conflicts yet). Once that is done I will gladly test this, as for the new project I have selected flow-router-extra. Please do not close this for now.