How to use Resend as email provider?

generator101

2 months ago

Has anyone used resend as email provider? I was reading this

https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#use-an-email-service

but has anyone used resend with payload?

any docs about setting up this will be great

denolfe
Payload Team
2 months ago
Hey @generator101, we use Resend behind the scenes for Payload Cloud. I can point you to some code that should get you 90% of the way there.

Here is the code to configure the nodemailer transport config for Resend:
https://github.com/payloadcms/plugin-cloud/blob/main/src/email.ts#L64-L150

You should be able to grab that code, make a few modifications, then pass into the
email
property on
init
.
https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#configuration

You can strip out most things related to Payload Cloud custom domains and swap some env vars.

How to use Resend as email provider?
generator101
2 months ago
@denolfe thank you, I got it working using the code you provided, thank you again
denolfe
Payload Team
2 months ago
Awesome!

@generator101 If you could share the code, that would be helpful for other people wanting to do the same! 👍

We'd likely add this to our docs as well

generator101

2 months ago

@denolfe sure, here is my transport

I configured it like this in server

const email = emailTransport({
        config: {
            fromName: process.env.RESENT_FROM_NAME,
            fromAddress: process.env.RESENT_FROM_EMAIL,
        },
        apiKey: process.env.RESEND_API_KEY,
        defaultDomain: process.env.RESEND_DOMAIN,
    })

environmental variables can be set for these

RESEND_API_KEY=
RESEND_DOMAIN=
RESENT_FROM_NAME=
RESENT_FROM_EMAIL=

message.txt

markatomniux
2 months ago
Hey @generator101 would you mind also including a copy of any code you used to create the email? I'm about to start implementing Resend in our environment and an example with Hooks would be great
generator101
2 months ago
@markatomniux I used this example:
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/master/examples/email
, you can replace this file with the one I shared
https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/examples/email/src/email/transport.ts
markatomniux
2 months ago
Thanks @generator101. Do you use React Email as well?
generator101
2 months ago
No, but i was thinking of using it in future
markatomniux
last month
@generator101 I wanted to share this, I incorporated React Email alongside resend. If anyone following this thread wants to try, install react-email in your Payload project and create an
emails
folder in your src directory.

I have a file in here called transport, where I use the code from
https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1129596553011658943/1132327692218417162

and I have another folder called
templates
. Inside of templates, create a new React Email component like this;
```
import { Html } from '@react-email/html'
import { Text } from '@react-email/text'
import { render } from '@react-email/render'

type Props = {
    name: string;
}

const Template: FC<Props> = ({ name }) => {

    return (
        <Html>
            <Text>Hello, {name}</Text>
        </Html>
    )
}

export default function (data: Props) {
    return render(<Template {...data} />);
}
```
When using Payload.sendEmail, pass the render function into the html prop like this;
```
import TestEmail from '../email/templates/TestEmail

...

payload.sendEmail({
    to: 'test@email.com',
    from 'contact@mywebsite.com',
    subject: 'Test',
    html: TestEmail({ name: 'John Doe'     })
});
```
Remember to install all react email components as needed, follow the docs -
https://react.email/docs/components/html

Hope this helps anyone in the future!
denolfe
Payload Team
last month
That's great! Incorporating React Email was on our list of things to get going 👍

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