mailgun

package.json

@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/mahuntington/emailer#readme",
   "dependencies": {
     "express": "^4.15.3",
-    "request": "^2.81.0"
+    "mailgun-js": "^0.11.2"
   }
 }

server.js

@@ -1,8 +1,35 @@
 const express = require('express');
 const app = express();
+var Mailgun = require('mailgun-js');
 
 app.get('/', function(req, res){
-    res.send('works');
+    var mailgun = new Mailgun({apiKey: process.env.MAILGUNAPIKEY, domain: process.env.MAILGUNDOMAIN});
+
+    var data = {
+        //Specify email data
+        from: 'matt.huntington@gmail.com',
+        //The email to contact
+        to: 'matt.huntington@gmail.com',
+        //Subject and text data
+        subject: 'Hello from Mailgun',
+        html: 'Hello, This is not a plain-text email, I wanted to test some spicy Mailgun sauce in NodeJS! <a href="http://0.0.0.0:3030/validate?' + req.params.mail + '">Click here to add your email address to a mailing list</a>'
+    }
+
+    //Invokes the method to send emails given the above data with the helper library
+    mailgun.messages().send(data, function (err, body) {
+        //If there is an error, render the error page
+        if (err) {
+            res.render('error', { error : err});
+            console.log("got an error: ", err);
+        }
+        //Else we can greet    and leave
+        else {
+            //Here "submitted.jade" is the view file for this landing page
+            //We pass the variable "email" from the url parameter in an object rendered by Jade
+            res.send('submitted');
+            console.log(body);
+        }
+    });
 });
 
 app.listen(process.env.PORT, function(){