Pair with Sam Larsen Disney for email creation and distribution

The format of the email

Sam uses Maizzle to make the HTML email look pretty then has SendGrid to send the emails.

There's a lot to go over here

SenGrid there was a fail bot to go over and Sam was kind enough to walk me through a lot of it

Sending the emails

SendGrid for emails, use automations for a thank you after a new sign-up, Sam has this in a node server.

Single send is for the newsletter, blank template in send grid then paste in the raw HTML from Maizzle.

What Sam uses for his slides navigation

https://github.com/slarsendisney/sld-clicker

He's looking at moving some of it to firebase serverless functions as he has a few Heroku servers to manage these things currently.

There was two approaches

There was two approaches to getting the data to SendGrid, the first one was with a SendGrid form and pulling the API key from the POST.

The second approach was to put directly from the sign-up form to the SendGrid API with a PUT request.

This was all Sam so massive thanks to him for walking me through this!

Here's an example of the request:

export default async function putToSendGrid(email, name) {
  await fetch('https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/marketing/contacts', {
    method: 'PUT',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GATSBY_SENDGRID_API_KEY}`,
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      list_ids: ['785c6867-cc31-46e9-84af-c5bf6935acd7'],
      contacts: [
        {
          email,
          first_name: name,
        },
      ],
    }),
  })
}

The list_ids here is the contacts list from my SendGrid Contacts section, under Marketing/Contacts in SendGrid.

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