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Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

66 points by fonziguy 12y ago

funkiee 12y ago
I really like the simplicity of the 'How it works' section and I will probably steal the concept for explaining parts of our build to new employees.
illicium 12y ago
See also: grunt-email-boilerplate [1] [1] https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate
mrmch 12y ago
This is pretty cool; we've put a lot of work into sendwithus to solve many of these same problems (inline css at send time, staging versions of templates, and multiple types of api keys). Kudos for having a README that actually makes sense.
consta 12y ago
+1 for the simplicity of the workflow. I got it running within a few minutes.
SimeVidas 12y ago
Hm, wanted to try this out but the Ruby dependency is discouraging -.-
- brbcoding 12y ago
  Isn't Ruby a dependency for Sass in general? Don't think that's a function of this grunt task.
  - joshuacc 12y ago
    Yep. It probably wouldn't be hard to modify this workflow to use Less or Stylus instead so that you don't need Ruby.
    - jaegerpicker 12y ago
      I just submitted a pr for less support, it will still require ruby as the premailer gem is still used to send the email out.
    - brbcoding 12y ago
      Might be able to use the Sassc - https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc lib too. There are several wrappers for it too, like this one for node https://github.com/andrew/node-sass https://github.com/andrew/node-sass
- fonziguy 12y ago
  Using the premailer gem for inlining CSS. Agreed would be nice not to have that dependency. Played with other solutions but couldn't find one as good.
jaegerpicker 12y ago
Are you open to pull requests? I forked this and added a couple of things that I'd be happy to contribute back to: -- Less support -- added a Gemfile to bundle install the ruby requirements -- added an npm preinstall task to run bundle install I tested and it's working locally

4 ms·

Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

66 points by fonziguy 12y ago

funkiee 12y ago
I really like the simplicity of the 'How it works' section and I will probably steal the concept for explaining parts of our build to new employees.
illicium 12y ago
See also: grunt-email-boilerplate [1] [1] https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate
mrmch 12y ago
This is pretty cool; we've put a lot of work into sendwithus to solve many of these same problems (inline css at send time, staging versions of templates, and multiple types of api keys). Kudos for having a README that actually makes sense.
consta 12y ago
+1 for the simplicity of the workflow. I got it running within a few minutes.
SimeVidas 12y ago
Hm, wanted to try this out but the Ruby dependency is discouraging -.-
- brbcoding 12y ago
  Isn't Ruby a dependency for Sass in general? Don't think that's a function of this grunt task.
  - joshuacc 12y ago
    Yep. It probably wouldn't be hard to modify this workflow to use Less or Stylus instead so that you don't need Ruby.
    - jaegerpicker 12y ago
      I just submitted a pr for less support, it will still require ruby as the premailer gem is still used to send the email out.
    - brbcoding 12y ago
      Might be able to use the Sassc - https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc lib too. There are several wrappers for it too, like this one for node https://github.com/andrew/node-sass https://github.com/andrew/node-sass
- fonziguy 12y ago
  Using the premailer gem for inlining CSS. Agreed would be nice not to have that dependency. Played with other solutions but couldn't find one as good.
jaegerpicker 12y ago
Are you open to pull requests? I forked this and added a couple of things that I'd be happy to contribute back to: -- Less support -- added a Gemfile to bundle install the ruby requirements -- added an npm preinstall task to run bundle install I tested and it's working locally