Ses-email-client NPM

SES Email Client

Description

ses-email-client is a wrapper for sending emails with AWS SES supporting templates.

Supported Templates

mjml
handlebars
ejs

Install

npm i ses-email-client

Usage

Instantiate Client

All settings are optional

// or ES6 syntax import SESEmailClient from 'ses-email-client';
const SESEmailClient = require('ses-email-client');
const client = new SESEmailClient({
    accessKeyId: '**********',
    secretAccessKey: '**********',
    region: 'eu-west-2',
    templateLanguage: 'handlebars', // 'mjml', 'ejs'
    production: true, // or process.env.NODE_ENV = production is as setting to true
    tmpltCacheSize: 50, // template cache size default = 100
    attCacheSize: 50 // attachment cache size default = 100
});

Note that in production mode either by explicitly setting it to true or by setting NODE_ENV = production ses-email-client will cache template and attachment files.

For AWS you can skip providing credentials as the aws-sdk is used so you can opt for other ways for authorizing.

For more info you can check setting-credentials-node.

Send an email

await client.send({
    from: 'mock@email.com',
    to: 'test@email.com',
    subject: 'Hello World',
    text: 'Hello World',
});

Message options

from string
to string or string []
cc string or string []
bcc string or string []
text string
html string
subject string
template string the path of the html template you want to use
data object an object containing the data that the template is going to be compiled with
subject string
attachments

[
    {
        "name": "myfilte.txt", // optional if not provided will keep filename
        "path": __dirname + "/path/to/file"
    }
] 
// or 
[__dirname + "/path/to/file","another/file"]