Send email using Mailchimp Transactional - React Email

1. Install dependencies

Get the react-email package and the Mailchimp Transactional Node.js SDK.

npm install @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional react-email

yarn add @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional react-email

pnpm add @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional react-email

bun add @mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional react-email

2. Create an email using React

Start by building your email template in a .jsx or .tsx file.

email.tsx

import { Button, Html } from "react-email";

interface EmailProps {
  url: string;
}

export function Email({ url }: EmailProps) {
  return (
    <Html lang="en">
      <Button href={url}>Click me</Button>
    </Html>
  );
}

3. Convert to HTML and send email

Import the email template you just built, convert into an HTML string, and use the Mailchimp Transactional SDK to send it.

import mailchimpTransactional from "@mailchimp/mailchimp_transactional";
import { render } from "react-email";
import { Email } from "./email";

const mailchimp = mailchimpTransactional(process.env.MAILCHIMP_API_KEY || "");

const emailHtml = await render(<Email url="https://example.com" />);

await mailchimp.messages.send({
  message: {
    subject: "Hello world",
    from_email: "hello@example.com",
    to: [{ email: "hello@example.com", type: "to" }],
    html: emailHtml,
  },
});

Try it yourself

Mailchimp Transactional example

See the full source code.