nodemail-aws-ses/index.js

nodemail-aws-ses is a Node.js package that provides a simple and easy way to send emails using Amazon SES (Simple Email Service). It provides an EmailSender class that takes care of sending emails using the AWS SDK, with options for both HTML and text ema

// Import required modules
const fs = require("fs"); // File system module for reading files
const path = require("path"); // Path module for handling file paths
const EmailSender = require("./emailSender"); // Custom EmailSender module for sending emails

// Load environment variables from .env file
require("dotenv").config();

// Extract command line arguments: email and subject
const [email, subject] = process.argv.slice(2);

// Validate that email and subject are provided as command line arguments
if (!email || !subject) {
  console.error("Usage: node index.js <email> <subject>");
  process.exit(1);
}

// Set up file paths for email content
const textFilePath = path.join(__dirname, "email.txt");
const htmlFilePath = path.join(__dirname, "email.html");

// Read the plain text email content from email.txt
fs.readFile(textFilePath, "utf8", (err, textBody) => {
  if (err) {
    console.error("Error reading text email file:", err);
    return;
  }

  // Read the HTML email content from email.html
  fs.readFile(htmlFilePath, "utf8", (err, htmlBody) => {
    if (err) {
      console.error("Error reading HTML email file:", err);
      return;
    }

    // Create a new EmailSender instance with the given email, subject, and email content
    const emailSender = new EmailSender(email, subject, textBody, htmlBody);

    // Send the email using the EmailSender instance
    emailSender
      .send()
      .then(() => {
        console.log("Email sent successfully");
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        console.error("Error sending email:", error);
      });
  });
});