VTEX Emails

VTEX Emails is an email framework based on bojler for developing transactional email templates for VTEX E-commerces.

Features

VTEX Emails inherited Bojler's features like:

• SASS support
• Automatic CSS inlining
• Embedded CSS
• Webserver with Live Reload
• Reset styles
• Responsive design

And it has other important features:

• Handlebars compiling
• Tachyons integration
• Partials for code reuse
• VTEX transactional JSONs examples for preview
• i18n for internationalization

Folders and structure

• public compiled files for preview
• dist compiled files for exporting
• source working folder
  • data JSON files containing Orders data
  • helpers VTEX's Helpers functions
  • locales i18n files
  • sass styles
  • templates e-mails templates
    • partials e-mails parts

You must NOT add, change or modify:

• helpers you can use only Handlebars and VTEX's Helpers

You can add, change or modify:

• data you can create folders with different JSON examples as well. They must have a real VTEX JSON structure
• locales use your own communication
• sass use your own style
• templates name your templates your own way. Each template must have a JSON file with the same name.
• partials use the partials that make sense for you

Hands on

Installation

1. Download or clone VTEX Emails
2. Install npm dependencies: run npm install

Developing

0. Requires node 16.x
1. Run npm run gulp dev
2. Go to http://localhost:8000/
3. Choose the language folder and open the template that you want to preview

Generating an exportable VTEX template

1. Run npm run gulp dist
2. Go to dist folder, copy the template content and paste it in VTEX Message Center

Generating a light preview version for testing

1. Run npm run gulp preview
2. Go to public folder, copy the template content and test it using services like MailChimp

Changing JSON data set

1. Stop npm service
2. Create a new folder in source/data
3. Change orderJsonToRead variable in gulpfile.js to the new folder name
4. Start npm service

To do

• Live reload is not working very well. Sometimes you need to refresh the page manually
• Recompiling doesn't work for JSON changes. You'll need to stop npm service and start it again
• Improve Outlook compatibility
• Improve VTEX inStore scenarios

Bugs and feature requests

If you find a bug or need new feature please open a new issue and we will discuss about it.

Thank you! :)