Your Emails Rock, and I'd Love To Bring this to .NET as a Pet Project

[XMLDiva]

I used to create emails over a decade ago and I haaaated it. I remember when I first found BootStrap Email about a year ago and was surprised no one's done it sooner. So thank you for creating this with such care, and even more thanks for the concept of converting bootstrap to correctly-janky email format.

I'm thinking of to porting this to .net as a pet project for myself (I need dynamic content emails shared that can be done without internet connection) If I ever end up pushing this into .net's package manager, I'll make sure it's clear yours is the original inspiration but the .net is a completely unrelated (and name it differntly) so you don't get issues accidentally created.

[stuyam]

Since bootstrap email supports compilation via the CLI, I wonder if there is a way it could be used to power support in other projects like .NET. I would guess the system would need ruby installed, but maybe it can be packaged as a binary and create .NET bindings to work with it. Thoughts?

[stuyam]

Also thanks for the kind words, really appreciate the support ❤️

[XMLDiva]

After looking into it more, Ruby & .NET have not been playing nice for awhile (there was a Ruby engine in .net....12 years ago lol ). I think for just starting for what I'm doing, I think CLI will do. If I get too many blocks and really feel I need to go full nilly, I may revisit the full rewrite later.

[taylorchasewhite]

@XMLDiva is your consumption of this project from .NET open source somewhere that I can take a look at it? I too am looking to use this from a .NET hosted application.

[w8tcha]

I'm thinking of to porting this to .net as a pet project for myself (I need dynamic content emails shared that can be done without internet connection) If I ever end up pushing this into .net's package manager, I'll make sure it's clear yours is the original inspiration but the .net is a completely unrelated (and name it differntly) so you don't get issues accidentally created.

I love this project, and use it in my .net forum software to create the email templates. I managed to convert the project to .NET 7/8 and convert it as library + cli.

https://github.com/w8tcha/BootstrapEmail.Net

It exist as nuget package so it can be easily integrated in a .net project.

[JohnCampionJr]

We must have been working on this at the same time :)

Here's my attempt:
https://github.com/UnDotNet/BootstrapEmail

[w8tcha]

nice i added benchmarks tests to see which solution performs better...

BenchmarkDotNet v0.13.10, Windows 11 (10.0.22635.2771)
12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K, 1 CPU, 24 logical and 16 physical cores
.NET SDK 8.0.100
  [Host]   : .NET 8.0.0 (8.0.23.53103), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
  ShortRun : .NET 8.0.0 (8.0.23.53103), X64 RyuJIT AVX2

Job=ShortRun  IterationCount=3  LaunchCount=1  
WarmupCount=3  

Method	Data	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio	RatioSD	Gen0	Gen1	Gen2	Allocated	Alloc Ratio
UnDotNet.BootstrapEmail	alert	58.07 ms	21.729 ms	1.191 ms	1.00	0.00	11000.0000	10000.0000	9000.0000	64.09 MB	1.00
BootstrapEmail.Net	alert	59.44 ms	4.233 ms	0.232 ms	1.02	0.02	4111.1111	2444.4444	1555.5556	54.83 MB	0.86
UnDotNet.BootstrapEmail	basic	49.86 ms	3.847 ms	0.211 ms	1.00	0.00	10600.0000	9800.0000	9100.0000	60.12 MB	1.00
BootstrapEmail.Net	basic	59.43 ms	14.352 ms	0.787 ms	1.19	0.02	3777.7778	2222.2222	1111.1111	54.83 MB	0.91
UnDotNet.BootstrapEmail	border-radius	64.20 ms	5.160 ms	0.283 ms	1.00	0.00	11000.0000	10000.0000	9000.0000	71.61 MB	1.00
BootstrapEmail.Net	border-radius	58.97 ms	17.146 ms	0.940 ms	0.92	0.01	3888.8889	2222.2222	1222.2222	54.83 MB	0.77
UnDotNet.BootstrapEmail	images	50.21 ms	8.722 ms	0.478 ms	1.00	0.00	10600.0000	9800.0000	9100.0000	59.94 MB	1.00
BootstrapEmail.Net	images	60.89 ms	55.176 ms	3.024 ms	1.21	0.07	3857.1429	2285.7143	1285.7143	54.83 MB	0.91
UnDotNet.BootstrapEmail	integration	85.74 ms	78.173 ms	4.285 ms	1.00	0.00	10333.3333	9000.0000	7333.3333	81.49 MB	1.00
BootstrapEmail.Net	integration	62.44 ms	21.416 ms	1.174 ms	0.73	0.04	4000.0000	2444.4444	1333.3333	54.83 MB	0.67

[JohnCampionJr]

Hi, very cool. Your integration test is compiling a tiny bit of html while mine is doing the whole integration string. Can you fix and update the results?

I think the big difference is you're compiling the SASS which makes total sense for a CLI use. I am just using precompiled CSS because I want to auto generate these in another project, not via CLI, so that SASS will never change.

{
        var bsEmail = new BootstrapEmail(new ConfigStore());

        return bsEmail.Compile("<a href='#' class='btn btn-primary'>Some Button</a>", string.Empty, InputType.String);
    }

[w8tcha]

I fixed the test

think the big difference is you're compiling the SASS which makes total sense for a CLI use. I am just using precompiled CSS because I want to auto generate these in another project, not via CLI, so that SASS will never change.

Like the original project the sass files are only compiled once then there are cached (stored).