Pass variable to html template in nodemailer

Question

I want to send email with nodemailer using html template. In that template I need to inject some dynamically some variables and I really can\'t do that. My code:

Answer 1

For those using pug as templating engine

Just a quick way to render a template in a separate file using pug's render function:

// function to send an e-mail. Assumes you've got nodemailer and pug templating engine installed. 
// transporter object relates to nodemailer, see nodemailer docs for details
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
const pug = require('pug');
function send_some_mail(iterable){
var message = {
  from: 'from@example.com',
  to: 'to@example.com',
  subject: 'Message title',
  html: pug.renderFile(__dirname + 'path_to_template.pug', {iterable: iterable})
};
transporter.sendMail(message, function(err, info){...})
}

// template.pug
each item in iterable
li
  p #{item.name}

See https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html for further details. Note that this will cause template re-compilation every time a message is sent. That is fine for occasional e-mail deliveries. If you send tons of e-mails, you can cache the compiled template to work around that. Check out pug docs for that set up if you need it.