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Ali Hussain
Ali Hussain

Reputation: 896

Use Html file as template in nodejs for sending emails for marketing with some complex level data

I want to use Html file as template in nodejs for sending emails for marketing with some complex level data like graphs populating them dynamically and also show grids etc. I want that to be dynamic like for each user the data can vary. what is the best possible way to do this I want this on server side with data

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3409

Answers (2)

ezeKG
ezeKG

Reputation: 166

You can use the email-templates package. The implementation is quite easy. In the case you use nodemailer you'll first need to configure the transport variable just like this (Example with mailtrap):

const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
    const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
      host: 'smtp.mailtrap.io',
      port: 465,
      secure: false,
      auth: {
        user: // mailtrap.io username
        pass: // mailtrap.io password
      }
    });

Then you use the package creating the email and sending it with the variables you need using the documentation. For example:

const email = new Email({
      transport: transporter,
      send: true,
      preview: false,
      views: {
        options: {
          extension: 'ejs', //or hbs or whatever template you use
        },
        root: 'path/to/email/templates',
      },
    });

email.send({
      template: 'hello',
      message: {
        from: 'Daenerys Targaryen <[email protected]>',
        to: '[email protected]',
      },
      locals: {
        fname: 'John',
        lname: 'Snow',
      },
    }).then(() => console.log('email has been send!'));

In this case you'll have a file inside email/templates called hello.ejs with the variables fname and lname (In your case you'll use the user data). For more examples and cases go to the documentation

Upvotes: 1

person
person

Reputation: 393

If I understand your question correctly, I think you should check out using EJS templates with express. EJS embeds javascript in html to create dynamic content.

Checkout a tutorial here

Upvotes: 1

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