AWS SES Email Template Create/Update Script Wrapper

template-creator.js

const minify = require("html-minifier").minify;
const fs = require("fs");
const { SESClient, CreateTemplateCommand, UpdateTemplateCommand } = require('@aws-sdk/client-ses');

const sesClient = new SESClient({
  region: "us-east-2",
  credentials: {
    accessKeyId: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    secretAccessKey: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  },
});

// usage : node .\template-creater.js .\emailtemplate.html emailtemplate.json false emailtemplate-unique-name "Subject for the email"
// 1st Argument => Templated HTML File
// 2nd Argument => Name of the generated template json file
// 3rd Argument => Update or Create template ( boolean )
// 4th Argument => Unique template name
// 5th Argument => Subject of the email


const isUpdate = process.argv[4] === 'true';

// read html file from commandline and minify them
const fileContents = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2], "utf8");
// var minifiedHtml = minify(fileContents, {
//   collapseWhitespace: true,
//   minifyCSS: true,
//   minifyJS: true
// });

// escape the html code double quotes and special characters
const myEscapedJSONString = fileContents
  .replace(/\\n/g, "\\n")
  .replace(/\\"/g, "'")
  .replace(/\\&/g, "\\&")
  .replace(/\\r/g, "\\r")
  .replace(/\\t/g, "\\t")
  .replace(/\\b/g, "\\b")
  .replace(/\\f/g, "\\f")

const params = {
  Template: {
    TemplateName: process.argv[5],
    HtmlPart: myEscapedJSONString,
    SubjectPart: process.argv[6]
  }
};

// write to template generation json file
fs.writeFileSync(process.argv[3], JSON.stringify(params), "utf8");

const command = isUpdate ? new UpdateTemplateCommand(params) : new CreateTemplateCommand(params);

const response = sesClient
  .send(command)
  .then(data => {
    console.log(data);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error);
  })