grunt-mandrill-template

Publish email templates though mandrill as part of your build.

This is being hastily deployed for internal consumption. You probably shouldn't use this yet.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-mandrill-template --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mandrill-template');

Use case

We have a build pipeline that compiles jade and sass into inline-styled HTML pages for email msgs. We then need to publish them

mandrill task

Run this task with the grunt mandrilltemplate command.

From https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/templates.nodejs.html

Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.

Options

key

Type: String

Your Mandrill API key

from_email

Type: String

The 'from' address. Acceptable domains may be restricted by your mandrill account settings

from_name

Type: String

The 'from' display name.

subject

Type: String

The subject of your email. Leave blank to load from the HTML <title> tag.

body

Type: String

If no files are specified in src:, the mandrill task will send a plaintext email using body for the msg content.

text

Type: String

a default text part to be used when sending with this template

publish

Type: Boolean

set to false to add a draft template without publishing

labels

Type: Array

an optional array of up to 10 labels to use for filtering templates

Usage

src: is one or more files to be used as an email body. A new email will be sent for each file.

module.exports = function(grunt){

  grunt.initConfig({
    mandrilltemplate: {
      server: {
          src: ['output/*.html'],
          filter: 'isFile',
          options: {
              key: '',
              from_email: '',
              from_name: '',
              subject: '',
              text: '',
              publish: true,
              labels: ['autogen']
          }
      }
    })
  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mandrill-template');
  });