AWS SES Email Template Create/Update Script Wrapper

template-creator.js

// install those dependencies first
var minify = require("html-minifier").minify;
var fs = require("fs");
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");

// 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


let isUpdate = process.argv[4];

AWS.config.update({
  accessKeyId: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
  secretAccessKey: "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY",
  region: "us-west-1"
});

// read html file from commandline and minify them
var 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
var 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")

var 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");

//upload to AWS service to render it as template
if (isUpdate) {
  let templatePromise = new AWS.SES({ apiVersion: "2010-12-01" })
    .updateTemplate(params)
    .promise();

  templatePromise.then(function(data){
    console.log(data)
  }).catch(err => console.log(err))

} else {
  let templatePromise = new AWS.SES({ apiVersion: "2010-12-01" })
    .createTemplate(params)
    .promise();
  
   templatePromise.then(function(data){
    console.log(data)
  }).catch(err => console.log(err))
}