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emarel
emarel

Reputation: 401

nodemailer-express-handlebars | Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory for template

I am having an issue where nodemailer-express-handlebars is outputing the error:

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ''] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/Users/person/Code/app/api/controllers/templates/undefined.hbs'

My setup is as follows:

 const handlebarOptions = {
    viewEngine: {
      extName: ".hbs",
      partialsDir: path.resolve(__dirname, "templates"),
      defaultLayout: false
    },
    viewPath: path.resolve(__dirname, "templates"),
    extName: ".hbs"
  };

  transporter.use('compile', hbs(handlebarOptions));

and sending the email with:

 let mailOptions = await transporter.sendMail({
    from: '"Test - No Reply" <[email protected]>'
    to: '[email protected], 
    subject: "Hello ✔",
    template: 'welcome',
  });

Oddly enough I still receive the email even though it says it cant find the file. How can I resolve this error and have nodemailer-express-handlebars not see the files as 'undefined.hbs'?

UPDATE:

I changed 'welcome' to 'welcome.hbs' in the nodemailer and now the error is saying it can't find 'welcome.hbs.hbs'. This makes sense, you would think the solution would be to remove the '.hbs' and make it 'welcome' but then we are back to the original error of 'undefined.hbs'.

Also, if i change the template to 'welcome2' it says it cant find 'welcome2.hbs'. Its weird... it's as though it becomes undefined only when the template file matches the filename which is what it should be.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6874

Answers (3)

Apol&#244;nio Serafim
Apol&#244;nio Serafim

Reputation: 53

My solution is:

const path = require('path')
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
const hbs = require('nodemailer-express-handlebars')

const { host, port, user, pass } = require('../config/mail.json')

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host,
    port,
    auth: { user, pass },
});

const handlebarOptions = {
    viewEngine: {
        extName: ".html",
        partialsDir: path.resolve('./src/resources/mail'),
        defaultLayout: false,
    },
    viewPath: path.resolve('./src/resources/mail'),
    extName: ".html",
};

transport.use('compile', hbs(handlebarOptions));

module.exports = transport;

The template folder in my project is: "src/resources/mail"

const mailer = require('../../modules/mailer');

mailer.sendMail({
            to: email,
            from: '[email protected]',
            template: 'auth/forgot_password',
            context: { token },
        }, (err) => {
            if (err){
                console.log(err)
                return res.status(400).send({ error: 'Cannot send forgot password email'});
            }
            return res.send();
        })

My template file is "auth/forgot_password.html"

In my project a problem occurred by configs of handlebarOptions, and solution is:

const handlebarOptions = {
    viewEngine: {
        extName: ".html",
        partialsDir: path.resolve('./src/resources/mail'),
        defaultLayout: false,
    },
    viewPath: path.resolve('./src/resources/mail'),
    extName: ".html",
};

Upvotes: 5

emarel
emarel

Reputation: 401

Answering my own question. It looks as though the issue had to do with making it a async function with a callback which caused some type of undefined issue.

For an in depth answer with code reference you can see the solution here: https://github.com/yads/nodemailer-express-handlebars/issues/43

Upvotes: 1

kavigun
kavigun

Reputation: 2365

It should not be a template property rather it should be html property in the sendMail object:

 let mailOptions = await transporter.sendMail({
    from: '"Test - No Reply" <[email protected]>'
    to: '[email protected], 
    subject: "Hello ✔",
    html: './templates/welcome.hbs',
  });

Upvotes: 1

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