Mailchimp Transactional Services Documentation

Nodmailer vs Mandril

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1. Init node project with typescript environment

npm init --yes [--yes flag lets npm fills the package. json file with the sensible default obtained from the current project folder.]

npm i express dotenv nodemon @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional sequelize sequelize-cli pg pg-hstore

npm i -D typescript @types/node @types/express

npx tsc --init

mkdir src [contains .tsx extension file]

mkdir dist [contains .js compiled file]

touch index.tsx [inside /src directory]

touch .env [on root dir]

update the tsconfig.json file

  "baseUrl": "src/index.tsx", 
  "outDir": "./dist",

Create a new api key in Mandril domain

1. Register account in Mandrillapp domain
2. Generate a new api key [domain: https://mandrillapp.com/settings/]
3. Copy the api key & paste it into .env file

Create a new api key in Mailchimp domain

1. Register account in Mailchimp domain
2. Generate a new api key [domain: https://us21.admin.mailchimp.com/account/api/]
3. Copy the api key & paste it into .env file

Work on root index.tsx file

1. Setup basic express api structure

   

2. Utilize @mailchimp package

   a). Check if api connection is done successfully or not

   

   b). Successfull Response be like:

   

3. Setup timescale db

   a).

   b).

   c). Setup timescale db connection

   

Convert reportData JSON to CSV downloadable format