email-templates-v2

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Node.js NPM package for rendering beautiful emails with your template engine and CSS pre-processor of choice coupled with email-friendly inline CSS using juicejuice.

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Note

This package (v2) is extended version of email-templates. v2 adds support for templating subjects.

Index

• Email Templates
• Installation
• Quick Start
• EJS Custom Tags
• Examples

* [Basic](#basic)

• Changelog
• Contributors
• License

Email Templates

For customizable, pre-built email templates, see Email Blueprintsemail-blueprints and Transactional Email Templatestransactional-email-templates.

Supported Template Engines

email-templates-v2 uses consolidate.jsconsolidate, and therefore supports a vast array of template modules. Please see consolidate.jsconsolidate for the impressive full list.

Supported CSS Pre-processors

• lessless
• sasssass
• stylusstylus
• stylstyl

Prerequisites

Important Note for Windows Users

Developing on OS X or Ubuntu/Linux is recommended, but if you only have access to a Windows machine you can do one of the following:

• Use vagrant to create a linux dev environment (recommended)
• Follow the Windows installation guide for contextify

Installation

Install email-templates-v2 and the engines you wish to use by adding them to your package.json dependencies.

npm install --save email-templates-v2
# See https://www.npmjs.com/package/consolidate for a full list of available template engines
npm install -S [ejs|jade|nunjucks|handlebars|emblem|dust-linkedin] 

Quick Start

1. Install the module for your respective project:

```bash
npm install --save email-templates-v2@2
```

1. Install the template engine you intend to use:

- `ejs@^2.0.0`
- `jade@^1.0.0`
- `nunjucks@^1.0.0`
- `handlebars@^3.0.0`
- `dust-linkedin@^2.0.0`
- `less@^2.0.0`
- `stylus@^0.51.0`
- `styl@^0.2.0`
- `node-sass@^3.0.0`

- See https://www.npmjs.com/package/consolidate for a full list

```bash
npm install --save <engine>
```

1. For each of your email templates (e.g. a welcome email to send to users when they register on your site), respectively name and create a folder.

```bash
mkdir templates/welcome-email
```

1. Add the following files inside the template's folder:

* `html.{{ext}}` (**required**) - for html format of email
* `text.{{ext}}` (**optional**) - for text format of email
* `style.{{ext}}`(**optional**) - styles for html format
* `subject.{{ext}}`(**optional**) - for subject of email

> **See [supported template engines](#supported-template-engines) for possible template engine extensions (e.g. `.ejs`, `.jade`, `.nunjucks`) to use for the value of `{{ext}}` above.**

> You may prefix any file name with anything you like to help you identify the files more easily in your IDE.  The only requirement is that the filename contains `html.`, `text.`, `style.`, and `subject.` respectively.

1. You may use the include directive from ejsejs (for example, to include a common header or footer). See the /examples folder for details.

Template Engine Options

If your want to configure your template engine, just pass options.
Want to use different opening and closing tags instead of the EJS's default <% and %>?.

new EmailTemplate(templateDir, { delimiter: '?' })

You can also directly modify the template engine

// ...
Handlebars.registerPartial('name', '{{name.first}} {{name.last}}')
Handlebars.registerHelper('capitalize', function (context) {
  return context.toUpperCase()
})
new EmailTemplate(templateDir)
// ...

You can also pass a juiceOptions object to configure the output from juicejuice

new EmailTemplate(templateDir, {juiceOptions: {
  preserveMediaQueries: false,
  removeStyleTags: false
}})

You can check all the options in juice's documentation

Examples

Basic

Render a single template (having only loaded the template once).

var EmailTemplate = require('email-templates').EmailTemplate
var path = require('path')

var templateDir = path.join(__dirname, 'templates', 'newsletter')

var newsletter = new EmailTemplate(templateDir)
var user = {name: 'Joe', pasta: 'spaghetti'}
newsletter.render(user, function (err, results) {
  // result.html
  // result.text
})

var async = require('async')
var users = [
  {name: 'John', pasta: 'Rigatoni'},
  {name: 'Luca', pasta: 'Tortellini'}
]

async.each(users, function (user, next) {
  newsletter.render(user, function (err, results) {
    if (err) return next(err)
    // result.html
    // result.text
    // result.subject
  })
}, function (err) {
  //
})

Render a template for a single email or render multiple (having only loaded the template once) using Promises.

var path           = require('path')
var templateDir   = path.join(__dirname, 'templates', 'pasta-dinner')
var EmailTemplate = require('email-templates').EmailTemplate

var template = new EmailTemplate(templateDir)
var users = [
  {
    email: 'pappa.pizza@spaghetti.com',
    name: {
      first: 'Pappa',
      last: 'Pizza'
    }
  },
  {
    email: 'mister.geppetto@spaghetti.com',
    name: {
      first: 'Mister',
      last: 'Geppetto'
    }
  }
]

var templates = users.map(function (user) {
  return template.render(user)
})

Promise.all(templates)
  .then(function (results) {
    console.log(results[0].html)
    console.log(results[0].text)
    console.log(results[0].subject)
    console.log(results[1].html)
    console.log(results[1].text)
    console.log(results[1].subject)
  })

More

Please check the examples directory

Contributors

• Nick Baugh
• Andrea Baccega
• Nic Jansma
• Jason Sims
• Miguel Mota
• Jeduan Cornejo
• Shailendra Sharma

Full list of contributors can be found on the GitHub Contributor Graphgh-graph

License

MITlicense-url