#MJML REACT HOW TO#
If anyone has had good experiences with other frameworks I'm very much open to suggestions. Mjml React Examples Learn how to use mjml-react by viewing and forking example apps that make use of mjml-react on CodeSandbox. But it sucks that the only two options that are actually worth a damn seem to be MJML and Foundation. Note: this does not bundle mjml so you can use whatever version of mjml youd like to convert the outputted mjml-string to HTML. But since we are using React in the rest of our app, we want to use React to create the MJML markup for emails.
#MJML REACT CODE#
This sorta normalizes things and lets you write normal react code that gets transpiled into some abomination that Outlook can read. MJML is a markup language created by Mailjet. The best solution I've found thus far is to use MJML React. Built around components, MJML comes with a library of standard tags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. Not to mention wired bugs like Apple Mail not rendering a background unless you have an image on the page. Posts with mentions or reviews of mjml-react. A great thing with React was the ability to leverage its components approach, as MJML is component-based too. a tricky job While we stay quite old school with our tooling, Josh deftly takes a more modern React-oriented approach here, leveraging Mailjet’s MJML framework and MDX - a way to work with Markdown in JSX to keep things friendly and. The layout is really wired too, with the recommendation to use a ton of nested tables. An MDX, MJML & React Workflow for Building HTML Emails We know perhaps better than most that creating HTML layouts that work in email clients is. Integrate MJML in your workflow thanks to those official tools, including task runners and plugins for Atom and Sublime Text. MJML’s open-source engine takes care of translating the MJML you wrote into responsive HTML. Its semantic syntax makes the language easy and straightforward while its rich standard components library shortens your development time and lightens your email codebase.
Using a framework is almost a requirement if you don't want to spend all your time on little differences between email clients. 'MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. I had to build some email templates for a project a few weeks ago and I was shocked how wired it was compared to regular webdev. With MjmlStyle, it will look like the snippet below (we change the CSS class “dark-text” to background color red and text color black).I will say that it sucks just as a much from the developer front. Mobile version email What if you want to set a different color for the mobile version of the email? You can use the prefers-color-scheme in the media feature. If our template only supports “light” mode, you can change the code to below. This basically says that the email templates support both light and dark mode, but the light mode is preferred (As a result, “light” is written before “dark”). About MJML: the only framework that makes responsive-email easy. However, if not, we can use “color-scheme” or “supported-color-schemes” to specify which color made the template supports like below. Web-version email In a lot of time, web version emails are still readable in dark mode. Let’s take some examples inspired by this git repository and this article.