An example tying hammer.js gesture support into a meteor managed template element via the template.rendered event

gistfile1.js

Template.thing.rendered = function(template){
    
    var element = this.find('.thingContainer');
    var id = this.data._id;
    if (element) {
        Hammer(element).on("dragleft", dragLeft);
        Hammer(element).on("dragright", dragRight);
    }
}

var removeItem = function(id){
    Meteor.call('removeListItem', id);
}

var dragLeft = function(ev, id){
    var touches = ev.gesture.touches;
    ev.gesture.preventDefault();
    //
    //Hokey: current doc id is bound to dom el id 
    //cause we don't have it in this contex
    var docId = ev.target.id;

    for (var t = 0, len = touches.length; t < len; t++) {
        var target = $(touches[t].target);
        
        target.css({
            left: touches[t].pageX - 250
        });
    }
                
    removeItem(docId);
}