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I've worked at a couple companies (medium-scale) with home grown email solutions. The server-side rendered templating grew into being used for HTML email as wel
by cobertos 3y ago
I've worked at a couple companies (medium-scale) with home grown email solutions. The server-side rendered templating grew into being used for HTML email as well. It helped the backend devs as the tech that rendered the webpages also rendered the emails (all server side rendering), and the frontend devs needed less training to go from just frontend to frontend + emails. It was sort of a path of least resistance thing and it did have its drawbacks.
- mbesto 3y ago> It was sort of a path of least resistance thing and it did have its drawbacks. This makes sense, but ya aren't there serious scaling implications to this?
- cobertos 3y agoNot really? The system worked as designed for the years I was there and sent _many_ emails. Rendering a template was never so taxing as to not scale. From a workflow perspective, each email was a template file, so if you had a ton of emails it was easy to parallelize the work across frontend devs