How can I avoid duplicate templates in Meteor? - meteor

Question

So I'm building my first app with meteor, and I feel like I'm repeating myself with my templates more than I should be.
I have multiple parent views, an example of which is the user contacts view, and the add group members view. (simplified examples below.)
<template name="GroupMembers">
{{#each contacts}}
{{> contact }}
{{/each}}
</template>
<template name="contacts">
{{#each contacts}}
{{> contact }}
{{/each}}
</template>
<template name="contact">
//... single contact template stuff
</template>
When the contact is displayed in the contacts list, I want to display a remove from contacts link in the single contact template, but in the group members list I'd like an 'add to group' link in its place. I know I could probably achieve this with either session variables or by invoking the iron-router controller obj, but I'd like to know if there is a simple way to do this in the template helper(s). Or put another way can these template partials become context aware?
Any help would be great.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I would solve it this way:
<template name="GroupMembers">
{{#each contacts}}
{{> contact groupMembers=true}}
{{/each}}
</template>
<template name="contacts">
{{#each contacts}}
{{> contact }}
{{/each}}
</template>
<template name="contact">
<p>
{{#if groupMembers}}
{{../name}}
<button>add to group</button>
{{else}}
{{name}}
<button>delete</button>
{{/if}}
</p>
</template>
Live demo: http://meteorpad.com/pad/LDTvHC787kJ6e9JQA/Leaderboard