Description

Event driven example of sending an email with a mustache template in Nitric

Usage

Step 1: Install Nitric

Prerequisites

• Git
• Docker
• Pulumi

MacOs

Install with homebrew

brew install nitrictech/tap/nitric

Windows

Install with scoop

scoop bucket add nitric https://github.com/nitrictech/scoop-bucket.git
scoop install nitric

Linux

Download as a scripted install via curl.

curl https://nitric.io/install | bash

Note: Complete installation guide can be found here

Step 2: AWS Configuration

mv env-template .env

AWS_SES_REGION="us-east-1"
AWS_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID="..."
AWS_SES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="..."

SENDER_EMAIL="..."
SYS_ADMIN_EMAIL="..."

Note: You'll need to whitelist these emails with amazon to send emails

Step 3: Run the API locally with Nitric

yarn install
nitric run

Step 4: Consume the API

curl --location --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:9001/apis/main/welcome/user'

{ "message": "Glad you're here developing with us - user." }

curl --location --request GET 'http://127.0.0.1:9001/apis/main/events'

{
    "output": {
        "documents": [
            {
                "ref": {
                    "documentClient": {},
                    "parent": {
                        "documentClient": {},
                        "name": "msg"
                    },
                    "id": "e9e18a55-6ed3-4781-b3f7-820ce221eb93"
                },
                "content": {
                    "id": "e9e18a55-6ed3-4781-b3f7-820ce221eb93",
                    "message": "Glad you're here developing with us - user.",
                    "timestamp": "1646942233037"
                }
            }
        ],
        "pagingToken": null
    }
}

What's next?

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