Jquery (metis-menu) Not Working With Iron:router In Meteor

I'm trying to implement a sidebar (leveraging the sidebar from sb-admin-2When I use the side bar as part of main.html, the toggles work perfectly fine. However, when I implement th

Solution 1:

This is how I resolved it.

AppLayout:

<template name="Index">
    <div id="wrapper">
        <!-- Navigation -->
        {{> navigationBar}}
        {{> Sidebar}}
        <div id="page-wrapper">
            <div class="row breadcrumbPosition">
                {{> breadcrumb}}
            </div>
            <!-- /.row -->
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-xs-9 blockablelockable">
                    {{> yield}}
                </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        <!-- /#page-wrapper -->
    </div>
    <!-- /#wrapper -->
</template>

Sidbar.html is a template with the original sidebar implementation.

SidebarHelper.js contains an functino in onRendered which initializes the metis menu like so:

Template.Sidebar.onRendered( function(){

    $('.metisMenu').metisMenu({
      toggle: true // disable the auto collapse. Default: true.
    });
});