sendgrid-templated

sendgrid-templated extends @sendgrid/client and @sendgrid/helpers to allow for easy use with html templates and data injection.

Installation

Use npm i sendgrid-templated to install the package via NPM.

Useage

import Email from "sendgrid-templated";

const email = new Email({
  apiKey: "SENDGRID_API_KEY",
  from: { email: "[email protected]", name: "Jane Doe" },
  to: { email: "[email protected]", name: "John Doe" },
  subject: "Welcome",
  template: {
    filePath: path.join(__dirname, "templates/welcome.html"),
    data: { firstName: "John", message: "Thanks for joining!" }
  }
});

email
  .send()
  .then(() => {
    // Success!
  })
  .catch(err => {
    // Handle err
  });

Assuming templates/welcome.html looks something like:

<div>
  <h1>Welcome, {{firstName}}!</h1>
  <div>{{message}}</div>
</div>

Config Options

The config object supplied to the contructor has the following options:

• apiKey: The API key you receive from sendgrid. Defaults to process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY
• from: Object containing the email and [optional] name for the email's from info. Defaults to process.env.SENDGRID_FROM_EMAIL and process.env.SENDGRID_FROM_NAME
• to: Object containing the email and [optional] name for the email's to info.
• subject: The subject of the email.
• template: [optional] Object containing info about the template to be used. See Template Config Options below for more details.

Template Config Options

The template config object has the following options:

• filePath: The path to the html file to be used as the email template.
• data: [optional] Object containing key/value pairs of injections to be made into the template.
• wrappers: [optional] A tuple of opening and closing char(s) to denote a template variable. (e.g. ["%", "%"] would denote a template var of format %firstName%)

Contributions

Contributions are welcome!

To continue development on sendgrid-templated, clone this repo, then run npm i to install all necessary dependencies.

You can run npm build to build the project, and npm test to run tests.