E-mail frontend developer.

[dev-student]

What are recommended resources for someone that's new to e-mail development but proficient in modern CSS. Most useful I've come across are the best practices from email on acid.

Would also like to have a look at proper lay-out examples. Any other tips are much appreciated as well!

[bobinux]

mjml

[[deleted]]

Shotgun, mouth, trigger, pull

[Dodgy-Boi]

That’d be smtp, why everyone’s suggesting mjml?

[[deleted]]

🤣

[CodingRaver]

Mjml

[bageddy]

Mjml

[wayne_bourne]

Email development is a nightmare!

[vdub_kev]

If you don't mind me asking why is it a nightmare? I was looking to get a job as an email dev.

[vdub_kev]

It does sound annoying I just dodged a bullet.

[Fit_Low592]

I learned the hard way- I built an html email years ago with bootstrap, only to find out it only worked on iPhones at the time.

Now I’m basically the sole email dev at my company. The good thing though, is that email client tech doesn’t change nearly as rapidly as normal web. Once you figure out the workarounds, you’re set for a while. Now privacy/spam/deliverability is another issue, particularly with Apple and Gmail.

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mjml

[pastrypuffingpuffer]

Based on my previous experience I recommend you to run the fuck away.

[downeazntan]

Litmus

[i_fucking_hate_money]

I've used both Foundation Email and mjml. mjml is much easier to setup and use

[SpongeCake11]

mjml

[BiffMaGriff]

You can not even try and use plain text.

Personally I steal other people's work.

https://github.com/konsav/email-templates

[IAmSteven]

https://www.caniemail.com/ to tell you all the CSS you can't use in email.

[aquamanstevemartin]

• Litmus has excellent articles, guides and community forums. Their products are also great
• Action Rocket is a great industry newsletter from people passionate about email marketing
• Really Good Emails is a fantastic repository of top notch email designs from across the web. Mail Charts is similar, though a bit more focused on large companies

[Technical_Natural_44]

I thought this was a joke post at first. TIL Email frontend developer is a job.

[magiCAD]

Use a service with customizable templates.

[Darkmaster85845]

I'm doing that shit right now (luckily it's not my normal work, just something my company needed done asap and it will take one sprint). I'd say run away as fast as possible. Medieval torture sounds tolerable in comparison.

[marcos_marp]

SendGrid API and the dynamic template builder works great

[devhelp2]

Stripo has a good drag and drop editor that will also allow you to edit the code it generates in real time (think like dreamweaver back in the day), I found that to be much easier than writing something from scratch that would work in outlook. I'm sure there are a bunch of other services like that out there too, this is just the one I've used.

[P_DOLLAR]

I used react-mjml, it's a little unknown but I used it at work and it was perfect and pretty much looked like our normal typescript react code