We use EmailBuilder.js as an open source block editor for emails.
Then, we save the JSON specification of these emails into the /emails/ folder, and parse them by the API from inside the /api/ folder.
All the structure is very simple and we want to improve it in the future, but for now it's working fine!
/api- API for retrieving HTML-formatted emails from the emails that are in the/emailsfolder./editor- The visual editor for our emails. We run it locally when working on a new email./emails- The folder with our finalized emails in JSON format. The API parse this JSON into HTML-formatted emails.
Both, editor and api are nodejs projects, so enter their folders and run a npm i.
After it you can run both with npm run dev inside their folders.
The API is published into Vercel by runninng vercel deploy.
By the editor you can save the emails as JSON files. Place these files inside the /emails folder in a way the path of the email is understandable.
We usually place the same email but in different languages into a same folder, to be easier, and we separate them by our projects names.
When using the API, you can provide the email you want passing a parameter ?email=path/to/email. It will get the JSON from GitHub and parse it into HTML.
