RazorLight VS MJML

Yes, I have used Razor pages in non-website applications before where I needed to load the cshtml templates from a different source. I have written Line of Business apps (think WinForms or WPF) where the reporting spits out HTML with tables and charts. There are a number of similar projects to yours out there which I have used in the past such as RazorLight or RazorMachine.

Your mileage may vary but I've had good luck with the RazorLight library for generating HTML emails from a template with data merged in. Under the hood, it uses the ASP.NET Razor engine for applying a model to a template.

We use https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight in combination with serverless functions.

you could use a razor based engine to generate html based on a view model (your data). take a look at: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight i use it to generate html emails

Rails has a templating system for generating emails (standard HTML/ERB files). If you're running an ASP.NET Web API (not MVC) the best way of doing that I've found is via Razorlight which you have to set up manually - https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

With Rails the standard is pretty much Devise or Omniauth (or both) - does everything for you. I've never found anything for ASP like Devise which gives you an entire login system with all the required views/migrations in a couple commands.

I use RazorLight: https://github.com/toddams/RazorLight

Razor Light

What an excellent resource! (And yes Outlook is a pain!)

We've tried building email templates for notifications for our apps where I work, and it has typically been a pain. We have since swapped to using mjml (https://mjml.io/) to build the templates, and it's working wonders. The output seems the be the most compatible with all different devices that we've tested on.

The other tool we enjoy using is Litmus (litmus.com), which allows you to throw in an email template and see what it looks like on all kinds of apps and devices.

Both of these have been really invaluable to designing emails for our apps.

I am using MJML and it’s relatively easy to build your described layout with snippets from the docs.

https://mjml.io/

Last time I had to deal with emails, I've used https://mjml.io/ and was very happy with it. You can version the templates, compile them as part of your build pipeline and it seems to do produce very _adequate_ HTML full of tables that looks good on all clients that we tested.

I suggest you look at https://mjml.io and see if their code holds better after forwards.

I use mjml https://mjml.io/ and like it pretty much

Yes, but email is a disaster to build from scratch. I ONLY build email using MJML. If you know html and css you will catch on quickly!

But why use React to do that when you can achieve the same thing on the backend?

https://mjml.io/