email-templates-v2
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Node.js module for rendering beautiful emails with ejs, jade, swig, hbs, or handlebars templates and email-friendly inline CSS using juice.
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Node Email Templates
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 juice.
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Note
This package (v2) is extended version of email-templates. v2 adds support for templating subjects.
Index
Email Templates
For customizable, pre-built email templates, see Email Blueprints and Transactional Email Templates.
Supported Template Engines
email-templates-v2 uses consolidate.js, and therefore supports a vast array of template modules. Please see consolidate.js for the impressive full list.
Supported CSS Pre-processors
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
Install the module for your respective project:
npm install --save email-templates-v2@2
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
npm install --save <engine>
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.
mkdir templates/welcome-email
Add the following files inside the template's folder:
html.{{ext}}
(required) - for html format of emailtext.{{ext}}
(optional) - for text format of emailstyle.{{ext}}
(optional) - styles for html formatsubject.{{ext}}
(optional) - for subject of email
See 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.
, andsubject.
respectively.You may use the
include
directive from ejs (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 juice
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: '[email protected]',
name: {
first: 'Pappa',
last: 'Pizza'
}
},
{
email: '[email protected]',
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 [email protected]
- Andrea Baccega [email protected]
- Nic Jansma http://nicj.net
- Jason Sims [email protected]
- Miguel Mota [email protected]
- Jeduan Cornejo [email protected]
- Shailendra Sharma [email protected]
Full list of contributors can be found on the GitHub Contributor Graph