Hey hunters!
I’m one of the makers of the MJML app.
3 months ago, MJML was posted on PH https://www.producthunt.com/tech... and received good feedback. One of the drawbacks though is that there was a small cost of dev environment setup to use it on your desktop / offline.
That’s why we started the app and then decided to include additional features such as the gallery of templates, live-preview rendering, sending mjml as an email directly from the app and saving your templates as Github gists.
I hope you'll like it!
@weshguillaume I spent the weekend learning how to design with MJML, did a few dozen emails with it. Loved it! Now you guys drop this beauty! You've made my day! Thank you guys!
Emails in general are a pain, normally we make a responsive design and then we send it to psd2html or similar services to get it coded at a fairly low price. What would be the benefit of using a framwork as MJML rather than letting the experts handle the coding @weshguillaume? Anyhow, this is a great case for a stand-alone desktop app.
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@mariuslian@weshguillaume Personally, I would say being able to customize a template without any worry of breaking the whole newsletter is a major benefit over a service like psd2html. I have used services in the past and the end result is cowboy coded and impossible to modify. MJML has an easy to follow syntax and methodology that makes this tool pretty simple to learn as long as you know the basics of HTML. Say your money and make changes on the go.
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@connor_phillips@weshguillaume I have the exact same experience, it is a black box of cowboy code. I we'll try this in our team.
@mariuslian@connor_phillips@weshguillaume Hey Marius, Connor’s answer is indeed one of the big use case for MJML as email design is no longer restricted to experts. It’s pretty useful when you want to easily/dynamically edit or generate parts of an HTML newsletter. MJML is also very flexible, in opposition to email design UIs or templates boilerplates for example.
Love using MJML, this makes it even better ❤
2 things
- Any easy way to drop-in images to a project?
- It is auto saving or saving when i hit cmd + s. Not getting an feedback that somethings happening.
Thanks a lot @devankoshal !! It is auto-saving. Maybe we can a additional cmd+s to save it as well. Dropping images is not implemented yet. I still don't know where to host images
@weshguillaume tight. yeah any type of visual feedback on saving would be great.
re images: would be cool if they just dropped into the templates's parent folder under a /assets or image/ folder
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These guys have done it again. Amazing framework that I have started to use for all of my email marketing needs. Just started using this application and can quickly see how this will get any novice programmer hooked. No need to get technical and generate server listeners from a command line, this application does all of the work for you. Great work!
@connor_phillips I remember you had done a great tutorial about how to install and use MJML (http://www.connordphillips.com/2...), this app definitely makes it easier to get started without totally replacing the environment setup as it can still be useful for certain use cases! Thanks again or your help and feedback
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@nico_g I agree. I look forward to playing around with it!
I recall checking this out last time it was posted, excited to see so much progress on it! Is there a suggested way to handle mail merge tags/variables and conditionals within templates. Support for both would rock my world, especially conditionals.
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Hi guys, we are one of the top email template developer. You can check our work at www.theemon.com/premium/email-te... I will be giving your software a trial and hopefully will be giving you some solid feedback
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