Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

Using nodemailer

There are a variety of Node-based packages that we can import to give us email capability. In this chapter, we will use the nodemailer package, which can be installed as follows:

npm install --save nodemailer  

Once installed, we will need a few declaration files using @types, as follows:

npm install @types/node --saveDev
npm install @types/nodemailer --saveDev
npm install @types/nodemailer-direct-transport --save
npm install @types/nodemailer-smtp-transport --save
npm install @types/nodemailer-bluebird --save  

With the nodemailer package installed, and the relevant TypeScript declaration files in place, we can follow the examples on the Nodemailer website, and send an email in three simple steps. Let's create a NodeMailer.ts ...