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Chapter 8. Marketing Mailer

This chapter covers the following:

• Sending emails from a Node app

• Setting up a scheduler to run tasks

• Verifying accounts and tracking email engagement

In this chapter, you’ll build an app that sends emails and manages the logic for the receiving users. You learned in Chapter 1 how HTTP is one protocol for communicating across the internet. Here, you’ll explore some of the protocols that are widely used for email servers and clients to support communication in another way. Just as Node can be used to deliver full-fledged APIs and web servers, it can be used for micro tasks, such as sending emails.

Throughout the chapter, you’ll add incremental pieces to support some of the most common functionalities used in an email marketing service. You’ll start by configuring a well-known package for sending mail externally. Then, you’ll build an API to support collecting emails and verifying them. At the end, you’ll add logic to automatically schedule marketing emails to select groups of subscribers to your product.

Tools and Applications Used in This Chapter

Before you get started, make sure to install and configure the tools and applications required for this project. Installation instructions for Node.js, Fastify, and VS Code are provided in Chapter 1, while project initialization steps, such as setting up your directory structure, configuring package.json, and using modern syntax, are covered in Appendix A. Once completed, return here to continue. Building ...