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Mosaico backend
Ready to go backend for Mosaico editor version 0.17.4
Main features are:
- upload templates and images for Mosaico editor
- persist mailings into DB
- an admin manage users/groups
- download ZIP archives of mailings
- sending mailings by email for testing purpose
Quick start
See the screencast https://youtu.be/sLzZq3cXDi0
INSTALL
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- have an Heroku account
- have an amazon S3 account for image hosting
- click the heroku deploy button and go through the installation wizard
Heroku uses 2 environment config vars that will take precedence over our defaults:
about heroku's stack version
This application needs the cedar-14 stack due to some limitations while running nightmare.js more informations on nightmare-heroku
ON ANOTHER SERVER
Pre-requisites
- Node.js >=8.11.4
- PostgreSQL >=9.6 (postgresapp on a mac)
- Redis (
brew install redison macredis-serverto start) - SMTP server (like mailcatcher:
brew install ruby– restart terminal –gem install mailcatcherthenmailcatcher)
NB: A compiled version of sharp — which is used to resize images and declared as a dependency — should be fetched automatically by npm for your system environment. In case of troubles see sharp installation instructions.
npm install
npm run dev
Then go to: http://localhost:3000
Configuration
Mosaico backend has a decent localhost-first default configuration.
We use rc for managing the configuration. See rc documentation for learning how you can override the default configuration
An easy way to start is by a making a copy of .backendrc-example to a .backendrc file and update your configuration here