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Make more helper functions to navigate the component tree

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So while there are functions to navigate one level of component tree, there should be also functions which navigate multiple levels, do it recursively. Imagine a jQuery selectors for selecting...

Ideas for new features of Blaze Components

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I am not yet completely sure how I would implement this, but I am thinking of doing some backwards incompatible changes to Blaze Components. In short, it is getting rid...

Server side rendering

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Preliminary testing looks pretty promising. Many tests are already passing. It seems that if the author is precise how they define components, things work. So no jQuery changes of DOM,...

Do not clear componentParent on destroy

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I am thinking that it is useful to not clear `componentParent` on destroy of a component. How it currently works is that when a component is created, `componentParent` and (corresponding...

Describe a proposed way to do inter-component communication

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So describe why event driven communication in other frameworks is just a special case of communication based on reactive methods on components. So for Blaze Components, the proposed way (but...

This is pretty simple to check, one should handle only `this.currentComponent() == this.component()`. But sometimes this is tedious to write in all your event handlers. So a mixin could wrap...

Provide equivalents to Blaze.render, Blaze.renderWithData and Blaze.remove

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Provide equivalents to `Blaze.render`, `Blaze.renderWithData` and `Blaze.remove`. For now you can use for `Blaze.render`: ``` coffee renderedView = Blaze.render MyComponent.renderComponent parentComponent ``` or ``` coffee renderedView = Blaze.render BlazeComponent.get('MyComponent').renderComponent parentComponent...

Describe a proposed way to limit rerenders because of the data context changes

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Using [computed field](https://github.com/peerlibrary/meteor-computed-field) package.

Blaze Components package explorer

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We could make a site which would be a simple package explorer for Meteor packages which provide Blaze Components. There is an [API](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Meteor-Package-Server-API). It would be great if we could...