Sails.js Email sending using sails-hook-email and Mailgun service

Hi Today we here to implement Email sending in Sails.js using npm package sails-hook-email and Mailgun service.

Assuming that you have created basic sails app with user controller.

1. Install sails-hook-email package

npm install sails-hook-email  --save

2. Create a email config file under config folder in the sails app

//config/email.js
module.exports.email = {
 service: “Mailgun”,
 auth: {
 user: “postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.mailgun.org”, 
 pass: “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”
 },
 templateDir: “api/emailTemplates”,
 from: “info@mycompany.com”,
 testMode: false,
 ssl: true
}

3. Create Mail service

// api/services/Mailer.js
module.exports.sendWelcomeMail = function(obj) {
 sails.hooks.email.send(
 “welcomeEmail”, 
 {
 Name: obj.name
 },
 {
 to: obj.email,
 subject: “Welcome Email”
 },
 function(err) {console.log(err || “Mail Sent!”);}
 )
}

4. Create some action to consume the mail service.

// api/controllers/UserController.js
module.exports = {
 create: function (req, res) {
   User.create(req.body).exec(function (err, user) {
     if (err) {
       return res.json(err.status, {err: err});
     }
     if (user) {
       Mailer.sendWelcomeMail(user);  // <= Here we using
       res.json(200, {user: user});
     }
   });
 }
};

5. Finally template for email

// api/emailTemplates/welcomeEmail/html.ejs
<p>Dear <%=Name%>,</p>
<br/>
<p>Thank you for SignUp.</p>

Cheers