Passing Vue.js form data to Nodemailer script with Axios-CodePudding

I have some form data in one of my Vue components that I want to pass on to my Nodemailer script so that data can be sent as an email. I'm trying to use Axios to do this.

Nothing is happening though as I don't actually know what I'm doing!

The Nodemailer script I have set up works when I execute the file in the command line. What I need is for it to execute when the form in my Vue.js component is submitted.

Here is my Nodemailer script -

"use strict";
const nodemailer = require("nodemailer");
require('dotenv').config();

// async..await is not allowed in global scope, must use a wrapper
async function main() {

  // create reusable transporter object using the default SMTP transport
  let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: "smtp.gmail.com",
    port: 465,
    secure: true, // true for 465, false for other ports
    auth: {
      user: process.env.user, // generated ethereal user
      pass: process.env.password, // generated ethereal password
    },
  });

  // send mail with defined transport object
  let info = await transporter.sendMail({
    from: process.env.user, // sender address
    to: process.env.email, // list of receivers
    subject: 'Translation Suggestion', // Subject line
    text: "Hello world?", // plain text body
    html: "<p>Traditional: <br> Simplified: <br> Pinyin: <br> English: "
          
  });

  console.log("Message sent: %s", info.messageId);
  // Message sent: <[email protected]>

  // Preview only available when sending through an Ethereal account
  console.log("Preview URL: %s", nodemailer.getTestMessageUrl(info));
  // Preview URL: https://ethereal.email/message/WaQKMgKddxQDoou...
}

main().catch(console.error);

And the function being called upon submit in my form component -

<button type="submit" @click="sendEmail" >Suggest</button>

sendEmail () {
          axios.post("localhost:3000/send-translation-suggest-email", () => {
            this.traditional,
            this.simplified,
            this.pinyin,
            this.english
          })
    }

CodePudding user response：

To create a REST-API with express.js, first initialize a node.js-project (npm init [-y]). Then you install express.js (npm install express).

When you have your setup, you can create an index.js-file, the server. In it, you will have to adapt the content of the express Hello World example, so that the route it accepts is not GET / but POST /send-translation-suggest-email. Then make sure your server listens to port 3000 (as you specified in the client-side code).

In the listener to POST /send-translation-suggest-email, you can call the main-method from your other file (make sure to import the file properly, with node.js's require-syntax).

Then, you can call the backend server from the frontend as you wished.