local-template.md

Local templates

Yes, catapulte allows you to send emails dinamically built with jolimail, but it also allows you to send your templates built locally.

Create your local templates

You have to create a folder where you'll put your library of templates. We'll call this template $template_path. Once you did that, each email template will be an other folder in which you'll have to put 3 files. One for the subject, named subject.ejs, one for the text version of the email named text.ejs and one for the html version name mjml.ejs. If you want an example, you can take a look at this folder.

How to deploy this

We provide a docker image of catapulte that we upgrade as often as possible to avoid issues and add new features. So we encourage you to use this image as a base image and then create a layer with your library of templates in it.

FROM inyoursaas/catapulte:latest

ENV template_path=/library

COPY ./where/your/library/is /library

If you want to make it cleaner, you can even create a repository in which you have your library, you put this Dockerfile and you build your image each time we make a change or each time you change your library, with a CI/CD.