SSR Mail Renderer

An http server that delivers server-side rendered vue.js pages. It is intended to be used as template engine for emails.

Defining templates

Email templates are defined in a src/email/<template-name>/ directory. Each emails consists of a template for the email subject, the html-formatted and plaintext mail content. In addition, each mail must be registered in the src/email/index.js file.

Previewing templates

Templates can be previewed under the /mail/<template-name>/<subject|plain|html> routes.

If the template is requested via a post request, variables can be passed as json object in the request body. For get requests, variables can only be passed via query parameters.

The passed variables are injected/provided to the templates as json object under the name 'data'.

For production usage, rendering templates via a post request to the endpoints /mail/<template-name> and passing variables in the request body is recommended.

Start the Server

# install dependencies
npm install

# compile the templates
npm run build

# launch the express.js SSR server
npm run start