Nodemailer-react NPM

Nodemailer React

This package aims to simplify the use of Nodemailer, along with React templating.

Installation

yarn add nodemailer-react

This package has nodemailer, react-dom and react as Peer Dependencies, so you'll need to install them if you don't already have them:

yarn add nodemailer react-dom react

Usage

You can find a full example in the example folder, or see the tests to have more details.

Configure your SMTP transport

An object that defines your connection data. See https://nodemailer.com/smtp/#general-options for details.

const transport = {
  host: 'smtp.example.com',
  secure: true,
  auth: { user: 'username', pass: 'password' },
}

Configure your defaults

An object that is going to be merged into every message object. This allows you to specify shared options, for example to set the same from address for every message. See https://nodemailer.com/message/#common-fields

const defaults = {
  from: "sender@server.com",
}

Create Email Components

They are basically functions which can take an object of props in parameter and return an object with :

The subject of the email, as string.
The body of the email, as JSX (ReactElement).

The have the following type:

type Email = (props: object) => ({
  subject: string;
  body: ReactElement;
})

Example:

export const WelcomeEmail = ({ firstName }) => ({
  subject: `👋 ${firstName}`,
  body: (
    <div>
      <p>Hello {firstName}!</p>
      <p>Hope you'll enjoy the package!</p>
    </div>
  )
})

export const PasswordEmail = /* ... */
export const ReminderEmail = /* ... */

Instantiate the `Mailer` function.

It takes your transport and defaults configuration as the first parameter, and a record of your emails components as the second.

import { Mailer } from 'nodemailer-react'

export const mailer = Mailer(
  { transport, defaults },
  { WelcomeEmail, PasswordEmail, ReminderEmail }
)

TIP: you can directly pass a transporter from nodemailer's createTransport method as first argument if you prefer.

TIP 2: you can alias your emails easily : { welcome: WelcomeEmail, pwd: PasswordEmail, ... }.

Enjoy!

Send mails in your application, by passing:

Your email template name: key of the email in the record you've provided to the Mailer.
The props of your email component.
The options of the email (to, from, attachments, etc.). See https://nodemailer.com/message/#common-fields

mailer.send('WelcomeEmail', { firstName: 'Mathieu' }, {
  to: 'my@email.com'
})

Typescript

Everything is fully typed, and you should have full autocompletion and type checking, within the options, but also components and props attached to them in send method.

However, as Nodemailer does not publish its own types, be sure to install them from DefinitelyTyped repo: