node-email-templates
Node.js module for rendering beautiful emails with ejs templates and email-friendly inline CSS using juice.
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http://niftylettuce.github.io/node-email-templates
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Index
Email Templates
For professional and customizable email templates, please visit https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints.
Installation
Unix/OS X
npm install email-templates
Windows
npm install email-templates-windows
Quick Start
- Install the module for your respective project
npm install email-templates
. - Create a folder called
templates
inside your root directory (or elsewhere). - For each of your templates, respectively name and create a folder inside the
templates
folder. - Add the following files inside the template's folder:
html.ejs
- html + ejs version of your email template (required)text.ejs
- text + ejs version of your email template (optional)style.css
- stylesheet for the template, which will render html.ejs
with inline CSS (optional)
- You may use the
include
directive from ejs (for example, to include a common header or footer). See the /examples
folder for details. - Utilize one of the examples below for your respective email module and start sending beautiful emails!
EJS Custom Tags
Want to use different opening and closing tags instead of the EJS's default <%
and %>
?.
...
emailTemplates(templatesDir, { open: '{{', close: '}}' }, function(err, template) {
...
NOTE: You can also pass other options from EJS's documentation.
Examples
Basic
Render a template for a single email or render multiple (having only loaded the template once).
var path = require('path')
, templatesDir = path.join(__dirname, 'templates')
, emailTemplates = require('email-templates');
emailTemplates(templatesDir, function(err, template) {
var locals = { pasta: 'Spaghetti' };
template('pasta-dinner', locals, function(err, html, text) {
});
var locals = [
{ pasta: 'Spaghetti' },
{ pasta: 'Rigatoni' }
];
var Render = function(locals) {
this.locals = locals;
this.send = function(err, html, text) {
};
this.batch = function(batch) {
batch(this.locals, this.send);
};
};
template('pasta-dinner', true, function(err, batch) {
for(var user in users) {
var render = new Render(users[user]);
render.batch(batch);
}
});
});
var path = require('path')
, templatesDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'templates')
, emailTemplates = require('email-templates')
, nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
emailTemplates(templatesDir, function(err, template) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
var transport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
service: "Gmail",
auth: {
user: "some-user@gmail.com",
pass: "some-password"
}
});
var locals = {
email: 'mamma.mia@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Mamma',
last: 'Mia'
}
};
template('newsletter', locals, function(err, html, text) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
transport.sendMail({
from: 'Spicy Meatball <spicy.meatball@spaghetti.com>',
to: locals.email,
subject: 'Mangia gli spaghetti con polpette!',
html: html,
text: text
}, function(err, responseStatus) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log(responseStatus.message);
}
});
}
});
var transportBatch = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
service: "Gmail",
auth: {
user: "some-user@gmail.com",
pass: "some-password"
}
});
var users = [
{
email: 'pappa.pizza@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Pappa',
last: 'Pizza'
}
},
{
email: 'mister.geppetto@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Mister',
last: 'Geppetto'
}
}
];
var Render = function(locals) {
this.locals = locals;
this.send = function(err, html, text) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
transportBatch.sendMail({
from: 'Spicy Meatball <spicy.meatball@spaghetti.com>',
to: locals.email,
subject: 'Mangia gli spaghetti con polpette!',
html: html,
text: text
}, function(err, responseStatus) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log(responseStatus.message);
}
});
}
};
this.batch = function(batch) {
batch(this.locals, templatesDir, this.send);
};
};
template('newsletter', true, function(err, batch) {
for(var user in users) {
var render = new Render(users[user]);
render.batch(batch);
}
});
}
});
This example utilizes Postmark.js.
NOTE: Did you know nodemailer
can also be used to send SMTP email through Postmark? See this section of their Readme for more info.
For more message format options, see this section of Postmark's developer documentation section.
var path = require('path')
, templatesDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'templates')
, emailTemplates = require('email-templates')
, postmark = require('postmark')('your-api-key');
emailTemplates(templatesDir, function(err, template) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
var locals = {
email: 'mamma.mia@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Mamma',
last: 'Mia'
}
};
template('newsletter', locals, function(err, html, text) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
postmark.send({
From: 'Spicy Meatball <spicy.meatball@spaghetti.com>',
To: locals.email,
Subject: 'Mangia gli spaghetti con polpette!',
HtmlBody: html,
TextBody: text
}, function(err, response) {
if (err) {
console.log(err.status);
console.log(err.message);
} else {
console.log(response);
}
});
}
});
var users = [
{
email: 'pappa.pizza@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Pappa',
last: 'Pizza'
}
},
{
email: 'mister.geppetto@spaghetti.com',
name: {
first: 'Mister',
last: 'Geppetto'
}
}
];
var Render = function(locals) {
this.locals = locals;
this.send = function(err, html, text) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
postmark.send({
From: 'Spicy Meatball <spicy.meatball@spaghetti.com>',
To: locals.email,
Subject: 'Mangia gli spaghetti con polpette!',
HtmlBody: html,
TextBody: text
}, function(err, response) {
if (err) {
console.log(err.status);
console.log(err.message);
} else {
console.log(response);
}
});
}
};
this.batch = function(batch) {
batch(this.locals, templatesDir, this.send);
};
};
template('newsletter', true, function(err, batch) {
for(user in users) {
var render = new Render(users[user]);
render.batch(batch);
}
});
}
});
Lazyweb Requests
These are feature requests that we would appreciate contributors for:
- Merge with @superjoe30 swig email templates fork
- Add ability to specify template language
swig
, jade
, ejs
, handlebars
, ... - Add ability to specify css language
sass
, less
, styl
, ... - Add parsing of HTML with CSS inlining and HTML linting
Changelog
-
0.1.0 - Fixed batch documentation issue
-
0.0.9 - Fixed juice
dependency issue
-
0.0.8 - Minor updates
-
0.0.7 - Added support for ejs's include
directive thanks to @nicjansma
-
0.0.6 - Fixed batch problem (...has no method slice
) thanks to @vekexasia
-
0.0.5 - Added support for an optional zlib compression type (e.g. you can return compressed html/text buffer for db storage)
template('newsletter', locals, 'deflateRaw', function(err, html, text) {
// The `html` and `text` are buffers compressed using zlib.deflateRaw
// <http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/zlib.html
// **NOTE**: You could also pass 'deflate' or 'gzip' if necessary, and it works with batch rendering as well
})
-
0.0.4 (with bug fix for 0.0.3) - Removed requirement for style.css
and text.ejs
files with compatibility in node
v0.6.x to v0.8.x (utilizes path.exists
vs. fs.exists
respectively).
Contributors
License
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2012- Nick Baugh niftylettuce@gmail.com (http://niftylettuce.com/)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.