Create email templates with EJS and send them with Mailgun

In this article we will create a HTML generator using EJS and send the HTML email with mailgun -js.

What we’re going to do:

1. Create a function to generate HTML given some parameters and an EJS template
2. Create a mailgun-js configuration file
3. Create a function to send an email given the required inputs
4. Create a trigger that brings it all together
5. Test everything along the way

Assumptions:

• You have a mailgun account setup and configured correctly
• You have a existing Node application that supports EJ6
• You have Jest installed and configured

First, install some dependencies by running yarn add ejs-promise mailgun-js winston

Create the HTML template generator. The generator will take a name of a template and the parameters that the template will use. It assumes that your template is in a /templates` folder.

We need to test the HTML generator to make sure it outputs what we are expecting and protect against regression. It’s important that we test the…