Since Meteor automatically scopes by file, you can write your template helpers and event handlers in the same file, and place a reactive data structure at the t

Since Meteor automatically scopes by file, you can write your template helpers and event handlers in the same file, and place a reactive data structure at the top of the file that both can access. You could use reactive-object (my package), as it provides a fairly drop-in reactive object that supports arrays as reactive properties, including all the Array.prototype methods.