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by 3np 1352 days ago
Just don't forget the plaintext version!

Even Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo users may disable js and/or HTML when reading mail.
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andirk 1352 days ago
Furthermore, save for some nice branding color schemes, better font sizing, and maybe a few other useful UI features, an email should be almost all text and images. It should be treated more like a postal letter or a chatroom message.
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tdeck 1352 days ago
I'm assuming this precompiles the HTML before sending it, given the render() call.
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hombre_fatal 1351 days ago
A Plaintext email would show the html tags in plaintext. It’s probably not something this library wants to solve since stripping html tags from an html email isn’t necessarily a coherent plaintext email either.

Generating a plaintext message dynamically isn’t much of a pain point but html emails can be.

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adamzochowski 1352 days ago
Does render() also generate plaintext?
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jeroenhd 1352 days ago
The example on Github doesn't seem to:

    // js-side
    import { render } = from 'jsx-mail';
    const template = await render('Welcome', { name: 'John' });
    
    console.log(template) // <html>...<h1>John Welcome to jsx-mail</h1>...</html>
(https://github.com/Theryston/jsx-mail)
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