feathers-postmark

A Postmark API service adapter for FeathersJS

Installation

npm install feathers-postmark --save

Documentation

The feathers-postmark service adapter creates services that send transactional email through Postmark.

Configuration

Like all Feathers service adapters, the postmark adapter is a function that receives an object as options and returns a class implementing the Feathers service interface.

postmark(options)

• options {Object}
  • key {String} - Your Postmark API key. Set it to POSTMARK_API_TEST for testing purposes. Required.

Once you have passed your Postmark API key in the options, the service is ready to be used in your application:

const postmark = require('feathers-postmark');
const options = {
  key: 'POSTMARK_API_TEST'
};

app.use('messages', postmark(options));

app.service('messages').hooks({
  before: {
    create: [
      // Use hooks in feathers-hooks-common to protect your service from outside access.
      disallow('external')
    ]
  }
});

service.create(data[, params]) -> promise

The create method will send the provided data through the Postmark Email API.

• data {PostmarkEmail | Array} - Supports any of the options available in the Postmark Email API body format.

Send a single message

If the payload of data is in the format of a PostmarkEmail Object, as shown in the example, below, the sendEmail method of the postmark client will be used.

const message = {
  "From": "[e-mail]",
  "To": "[e-mail]",
  "Cc": "[e-mail]",
  "Bcc": "[e-mail]",
  "Subject": "Test",
  "Tag": "Invitation",
  "HtmlBody": "<b>Hello</b>",
  "TextBody": "Hello",
  "ReplyTo": "[e-mail]",
  "Headers": [
    {
      "Name": "CUSTOM-HEADER",
      "Value": "value"
    }
  ],
  "TrackOpens": true,
  "TrackLinks": "None",
  "Attachments": [
    {
      "Name": "readme.txt",
      "Content": "dGVzdCBjb250ZW50",
      "ContentType": "text/plain"
    },
    {
      "Name": "report.pdf",
      "Content": "dGVzdCBjb250ZW50",
      "ContentType": "application/octet-stream"
    }
  ]
};

app.service('my-postmark-service').create(message);

Send a Templated Message

If your message includes a TemplateId property, the sendEmailWithTemplate method of the postmark client will be used. The message data can include any of the PostmarkTemplateMessage properties.

Send a Batch Message

If the data passed to create is an array, the data will be passed to the sendEmailBatch method of the postmark client.

Complete Example

Here's an example of a Feathers server that uses feathers-postmark.

const feathers = require('feathers');
const rest = require('feathers-rest');
const hooks = require('feathers-hooks');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const errorHandler = require('feathers-errors/handler');
const postmark = require('feathers-postmark');

// Initialize the application
const app = feathers()
  .configure(rest())
  .configure(hooks())
  // Needed for parsing bodies (login)
  .use(bodyParser.json())
  .use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))
  // Initialize your feathers plugin
  .use('messages', postmark({key: 'POSTMARK_API_TEST'})
  .use(errorHandler());

app.listen(3030);

console.log('Feathers app started on 127.0.0.1:3030');

License

Copyright (c) 2016

Licensed under the MIT license.