docwatson/mailnaut

Mailnaut is a NodeJS app that will allow you to parse an email template and prepare it for email campaigns. WIP

mailnaut's Issues

Does it work with Express 4?

If so, great! If not, consider:

1. Updating it to work with Express 4.x
2. Updating package.json to use Express 3.x instead of latest

UTM Generation Output

For UTM Generator, after uploading the file and doing the processing, the application should either A) give the user the option to download the prepared files (this could be done with a link on the /utm/generate/ page) or B) stream the zip file directly to the user (simply begin download).

Extra Modularization

Consider breaking out the write files and write zip functionality into their own methods.

Consider making the header nav smaller when on one of the sub pages.

It takes up an awful lot of space and would probably make more sense to reduce its size when not on the home page.

Abstract Logic from routes into a Controller

Should have started this way, but it would make more sense to take a lot of the logic out of the routes.js file and move it into a controller.

Email Feature Detection

Modify the Link Review section to add some extra feature detection.

1. Check if the tag exists for responsive emails
2. Check to see if images have local paths or not (display notification)
3. Check to see if <style> tags are in or (some email clients - versions of Outlook especially - respond better if the style tags are in the body as opposed to the head)

Data Validation

Data validation on front and backend needs to be implemented for a nicer user experience (and to prevent crashes!)

Forward port to Express 4.0

A lot of techniques used in server.js will break in Express 4.0. Since the package.json (probably foolishly) sets the app to install the latest version of express, this is problematic. Going to mark this as an enhancement, and update package.json to use Express 3 in the meantime.

For link checking, detail if the link is around an image

On the link check section, it should indicate that the link is around and image (and supply its ALT text, if applicable).

Test Blasts

Research the ability to send test blasts to a target email address using mailnaut.

Plaintext whitespace output is not very good

Instead of manually doing it, let's try using this library:

https://www.npmjs.org/package/html-to-text

Update color scheme

The colors are a bit flat and drab on some displays; check and consider brightening the greens.

Abstract New Vendor html into its own file

Right now, this HTML is part of the MailNaut object in scripts.js. It should really go into its own HTML fragment that's then loaded in using .load(). Not good to have view logic inside of this class!

Shrinkwrap Express Version to 3.x until it can be forward ported

This will break the app if not done.

NAV links should not be relative

The links in the header nav are set to be relative to the current page. This can cause problems after generating a plaintext version, for example.

Allow users to paste HTML in directly

Give this as an option instead of uploading files