sts-sendgrid

This library allows you to quickly and easily use the SendGrid Web API via Node.js.

Announcements

BREAKING CHANGE as of 2016.06.14

Version 3.X.X brings you full support for all Web API v3 endpoints. We have the following resources to get you started quickly:

• SendGrid Documentation
• Usage Docs
• Example Code
• Migration from v2 to v3

Thank you for your continued support!

All updates to this library is documented in our CHANGELOG.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Node.js version 0.10, 0.12 or 4
• The SendGrid service, starting at the free level

Setup Environment Variables

Update your environment with your SENDGRID_API_KEY.

echo "export SENDGRID_API_KEY='YOUR_API_KEY'" > sendgrid.env
echo "sendgrid.env" >> .gitignore
source ./sendgrid.env

Install Package

The following recommended installation requires npm. If you are unfamiliar with npm, see the npm docs. Npm comes installed with Node.js since node version 0.8.x therefore you likely already have it.

Add the following to your package.json file:

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "sendgrid": "^3.0.8"
  }
}

Install sendgrid-nodejs and its dependencies:

npm install

Alternative Installation

You can also install sendgrid locally with the following command:

npm install sendgrid

Dependencies

• Nodejs-HTTP-Client

Quick Start

Hello Email

  var helper = require('sendgrid').mail
  from_email = new helper.Email("[e-mail]")
  to_email = new helper.Email("[e-mail]")
  subject = "Hello World from the SendGrid Node.js Library"
  content = new helper.Content("text/plain", "some text here")
  mail = new helper.Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, content)
 
  var sg = require('sendgrid').SendGrid(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY)
  var requestBody = mail.toJSON()
  var request = sg.emptyRequest()
  request.method = 'POST'
  request.path = '/v3/mail/send'
  request.body = requestBody
  sg.API(request, function (response) {
    console.log(response.statusCode)
    console.log(response.body)
    console.log(response.headers)
  })

General v3 Web API Usage

var sg = require('sendgrid').SendGrid(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY)
 
// GET Collection
var request = sg.emptyRequest()
request.method = 'GET'
request.path = '/v3/api_keys'
sg.API(request, function (response) {
  console.log(response.statusCode)
  console.log(response.body)
  console.log(response.headers)
})

Usage

• SendGrid Docs
• Usage Docs
• Example Code
• v3 Web API Mail Send Helper

Roadmap

If you are intersted in the future direction of this project, please take a look at our milestones. We would love to hear your feedback.

How to Contribute

We encourage contribution to our libraries, please see our CONTRIBUTING guide for details.

• Feature Request
• Bug Reports
• Improvements to the Codebase

About

sendgrid-nodejs is guided and supported by the SendGrid Developer Experience Team.

sendgrid-nodejs is maintained and funded by SendGrid, Inc. The names and logos for sendgrid-nodejs are trademarks of SendGrid, Inc.