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Express Handlebars plugin for Nodemailer

This plugin works with nodemailer 6.x. And uses the express-handlebars view engine to generate html emails.

Install from npm

npm install nodemailer-express-handlebars

Usage

//reference the plugin
var hbs = require('nodemailer-express-handlebars');
//attach the plugin to the nodemailer transporter
transporter.use('compile', hbs(options));
//send mail with options
var mail = {
   from: 'from@domain.com',
   to: 'to@domain.com',
   subject: 'Test',
   template: 'email',
   context: {
       name: 'Name'
   }
}
transporter.sendMail(mail);

Plugin Options

The plugin expects the following options:

viewEngine (required) either the express-handlebars view engine instance or options for the view engine
viewPath (required) provides the path to the directory where your views are
extName the extension of the views to use (defaults to .handlebars)

Mail options

Set the template and values properties on the mail object before calling sendMail

template the name of the template file to use
context this will be passed to the view engine as the context as well as view engine options see here

License

MIT

Usage no npm install needed!