Text Template System

[hikalkan]

I've created a simple email template system to send localized emails with placeholders replaced by values on the runtime.

We can create a general-purpose templating system that can be integrated to templating existing libraries and play well with the Virtual File System and Localization features of ABP framework.

[hikalkan]

We should check https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight and https://github.com/mirsaeedi/Mailzory

[natiki]

Something like https://github.com/andrewdavey/postal would also be ideal. It does HTML and Text very easily using Razor syntax. It has not had any work on it for some time though unfortunately even though it was promised andrewdavey/postal#172 (comment)

[bbakermmc]

If its specif for email you should look at:
https://mjml.io/

[hikalkan]

I thought it as generic, but will look for mjml too. Thanks.

[hikalkan]

This is implemented for email sending (#1141) using this library: https://github.com/lunet-io/scriban

I keep this issue open. We may generalize it to provide a more generic text templating feature.

[natiki]

@hikalkan how does scriban specifically deal with email templating? I don't see how it deals with plain text vs HTML templating etc.?

[maliming]

hi @natiki

Scriban is an engine that processes text templates. So it can handle all the text of html, md, etc.

At the same time scriban is also a very active project, compatibility is also very good.
Support for advanced template syntax.

If you have other equally powerful text template engine class libraries, you can also replace it.

[natiki]

@maliming Understood.... Was just hoping that this would tie in easily to be able to use MVC to send emails like Postal or simlair.