Angular 4 Transactional Email with Google Firebase Cloud Functions

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https://angularfirebase.com/lessons/angular4-transactional-email-with-cloud-functions-and-sendgrid/ In this episode, I am going to show you how send transactional email in Angular as a background task in cloud. To facilitate this, the emails will be send with Google Cloud Functions for Firebase and the email service Sendgrid. You can use any email provider you want such as mailgun or postmark or even Gmail, but I will chose Sendgrid for this tutorial because they have a solid helper library and a detailed NodeJS example in their documentation. They also offer a free trail with no credit card requirements, so get your API key to follow along with this lesson. What is a Cloud Function? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless architecture that allows you to run isolated code in a NodeJS runtime - as opposed to deploying your own server. It is Google's answer to AWS Lambda and has only been available to the public since 2017. It's an awesome tool for Firebase developers because it allows you to run code in the background that would otherwise slow down an Angular app, and email is definitely a task that should be delegated to its own background task or micro service. We can trigger cloud functions in many different ways, but this lesson will demonstrate the use of cloud functions via HTTP. When the function is deployed, Google Cloud Platform will give us a URL endpoint that we can hit with query params that tell SendGrid how to deliver the email. The process is no different

Published 2017-06-15 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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