alter.email

Source code of alter.email - a tool for transforming HTML emails.

Getting Started

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/cossssmin/alter.email.git

Install dependencies:

# Navigate to project directory
cd alter.email

# Install dependencies with NPM
npm install

Build Lambda function

npm run build:lambda

Start developing

npm run serve

Features

Alter.Email comes with most transformers that power the Maizzle Email Framework.

CSS Inliner

Uses the Juice library to inline your embedded CSS.

Code Cleanup

• Remove unused CSS

  Uses email-comb to remove unused CSS.

• Replace strings

  Batch replace strings in your HTML email. Regex supported.

• Six-digit HEX colors

  Ensures that all your HEX colors are defined with six digits.

Extra Attributes

Add any number of attributes to any elements in your HTML. Tag names can also be cheerio selectors.

URLs

• Base Image URL

  Prepend a base URL to all image sources in your email. Applies to both inline and background images.

• URL Parameters

  Add any number of query string parameters to your anchor URLs. You can choose which ones should be encoded, too!

Formatting

• Prettify

  Uses pretty to pretty-print your HTML code.

• Minify

  Uses html-crush to minify your HTML code.

• Plaintext

  Uses string-strip-html to generate a plaintext version of your HTML email.

• Prevent Widow Words

  Uses prevent-widows to replace spaces and hyphens at the end of a string with non-breaking equivalents.

UI Features

📱 Responsive Preview

Preview your HTML live, in a resizable iframe:

• drag the handle to horizontally-resize the preview
• while dragging, the iframe shows a viewport pixel width indicator
• double-clicking the handle resets the panes to their original widths

⚠ HTML Size Indicator

Shows your approximate HTML input and output file sizes, updated as-you-type.

When you're close to Gmail's clipping limit, it'll show a warning icon linked to a GitHub issue that discusses this in detail.

Contributing

Have ideas for new features? Found a bug and want to squash it?

Pull requests are welcome!

However, nobody likes working hard just to see their PR rejected. So, before starting any significant amount of work, please open an issue and describe your idea.

Build previews

When you open a PR, Netlify CI will automatically deploy a public build preview of your branch.