Meteor Iron-Router Without Layout Template or JSON View

Question

Using Meteor Iron-Router how can I either render data as JSON or simply display it \"raw\" (without a layout template)

Essentially I want to be able to do s

Answer 1

See: https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/issues/114

(Note the comment amending the content type.)

Answer 2

Make a raw layout template

<template name="direct_layout">
    {{> yield}}
</template>

Then use that as your layoutTemplate to directly use your template.

this.route('rawdata', {
    path: '/raw/:collection',
    layoutTemplate: 'direct_layout',
    template: 'raw'
});

I'm not sure whether you're using this as a placeholder for your actual code. If you intend to render data using JSON or actual raw text. You might want to consider using server-side routes. You should do something like this instead:

Note that this is server side code, unlike the above which runs on the client side:

this.route('serverRoute', {
  where: 'server',
  path: '/your-route',
  action: function() {
    var data = {this_is:'a json object'}


    this.response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'});
    this.response.end(JSON.stringify(data));
  }
});

Have a look at Server side rendering on Iron-Router: https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/blob/master/DOCS.md#server-side-routing