email-lang

SYNOPSIS

A language to model emails.

You can use this software in your npm project by requiring it or you can use email-lang-cli from your command line.

BUILD

npm install --save-dev email-lang

USAGE

email.txt

Write an email file that follows the language specification

From: "matteomerola.me" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Comment about the novel
Date: February 21, 2017 at 7:02:47 AM GMT+1
To: Tiffany <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: Matteo <[e-mail]>

We all know the numerous film adaptations of the novel!

Cheers,
  Matt.

index.js

Create an instance of the model then pass data into it one or more times.

const fs = require('fs')
const compile = require('email-lang')
 
let emails = compile(fs.readFileSync('email.txt', 'utf8'))
 
console.log(emails[0].subject) // prints "Comment about the novel"

output

The result will be an array of emails structured as follows

[
  {
    from: {
      name: 'Matteo',
      email: '[e-mail]'
    },
    subject: 'The subject of the email',
    to: {
      name: 'Recipient',
      email: '[e-mail]'
    },
    replyTo: {
      name: 'Matteo',
      email: '[e-mail]'
    },
    text: 'The body content of the email message'
  },
  {
    ...// another email if any
  }
]

LICENSE

http://matteomerola.me