Show HN: A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails

[fonziguy]

https://github.com/leemunroe/grunt-email-design

[funkiee]

I really like the simplicity of the 'How it works' section and I will probably steal the concept for explaining parts of our build to new employees.

[jaegerpicker]

Are you open to pull requests? I forked this and added a couple of things that I'd be happy to contribute back to:

  -- Less support
  -- added a Gemfile to bundle install the ruby requirements
  -- added an npm preinstall task to run bundle install

I tested and it's working locally

[mrmch]

This is pretty cool; we've put a lot of work into sendwithus to solve many of these same problems (inline css at send time, staging versions of templates, and multiple types of api keys).

Kudos for having a README that actually makes sense.

[illicium]

See also: grunt-email-boilerplate [1]

[1] https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate

[consta]

+1 for the simplicity of the workflow. I got it running within a few minutes.

[SimeVidas]

Hm, wanted to try this out but the Ruby dependency is discouraging -.-

[fonziguy → SimeVidas]

Using the premailer gem for inlining CSS. Agreed would be nice not to have that dependency. Played with other solutions but couldn't find one as good.

[brbcoding → SimeVidas]

Isn't Ruby a dependency for Sass in general? Don't think that's a function of this grunt task.

[joshuacc → brbcoding]

Yep. It probably wouldn't be hard to modify this workflow to use Less or Stylus instead so that you don't need Ruby.

[brbcoding → joshuacc]

Might be able to use the Sassc - https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc lib too. There are several wrappers for it too, like this one for node https://github.com/andrew/node-sass

[jaegerpicker → joshuacc]

I just submitted a pr for less support, it will still require ruby as the premailer gem is still used to send the email out.