Pretty-email is just that, a package to help you write your html emails. No need to embed HTML tags inside strings.

Installation

npm install pretty-emails

Usage

Pretty-email supports three template engines nameley :-

• Handlebars
• Ejs
• and Pug

I wanted to add more but wanted to keep it as lightweight as possible

Setting up config

    const pretty = require("pretty-emails");
     pretty.config({
      service:"Mailgun",
      auth:{
       user:"mysmptusername",
       pass:"mysmptpassword"

      },
      templateEngine:"handlebars" //or ejs/pug
      templateFile:"/views/myPrettyEmail" //no extension needed
    })

Configurations

• service : well known smtp service that are supported by nodemailer
• auth : credentials used to login to the service provider
• templateEngine: Type of template engine to render, options include handlebars, ejs, pug
• templateFile: Path to the template file. No need to add the extension.

NOTE : templateFile needs the first / to determine exactly where the file for instance templateFile:"/mysubfolder/templateName" or templateFile:/templateName will work but templateFile:subfolder/file will not

Since pretty-email uses nodemailer, most of the options available with nodemailer can be used with pretty-email as well such as

• port
• smtp

for a complete list of configurations you can check out nodemailer

MailOptions After you configure your mail transport settings simply put in the options of the reciepent and sender in the mailOptions settings

    pretty.mailOptions({
     to:"[email protected]",
     from:"Forest whitaker <[email protected]>"
     subject:"Welcome to Jurrasic Park",
     data:{
      variable1:"value",
      variable2:"value2"
     }

    }) 

The data property holds the optional variables you want to change in the html markup, this can be useful when sending multiple emails and would like to dynamically change some fields

An example in handlebars would be:

    <h2>How are you doing {{person}}</h2>
    Just wanted to invite you to our yearly {{name}} conference Don't miss it

The corresponding data object would be

    pretty.mailOptions({
    ...
     data:{
      person:"Spiderman",
      name:"Comicon"
     }
    ...
    })                                            

As with config most of the options that come with node-mailer can be used such as :-

• attachments
• header
• messageId

for a complete list of options you can check out nodemailer

And finally

    pretty.send();

and that's pretty much it Feel free to contribute to this package and lets make emails pretty again!!