How I Built An Open Source Serverless Newsletter Platform

• serverless-newsletter-app

  2 47 10.0 JavaScript

  Open Source project that uses SendGrid to publish newsletters via a dynamic template

This platform is open source and I'd love for you to try it out and make updates as you see fit. It does require you to make a SendGrid account, but that's the only external thing you have to do. You can find all setup instructions in the README.

• sendgrid-nodejs

  154 2,948 6.5 JavaScript

  The Official Twilio SendGrid Led, Community Driven Node.js API Library

  

Sending emails that don't go to spam is difficult and requires expertise and ongoing maintenance - something I do not have. So I explored two options: Amazon SES and SendGrid. There are others out there, but I had the most familiarity with these two.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• handlebars.js

  72 17,730 6.2 JavaScript

  Minimal templating on steroids.

  

SendGrid has a neat feature called dynamic templates that allows you to create a parameterized email message using Handlebars.

• Hugo

  548 72,452 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

I write all my content in Markdown. When I commit a new blog post or newsletter, it is compiled into html by the Hugo framework in the CI pipeline of my AWS Amplify project. When a build finishes successfully, Amplify publishes an event to EventBridge, which is where the workflow picks it up.

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