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react-email

Use when building HTML email templates with React components, adding a visual email editor to an application using the React Email visual editor, rendering emails to HTML, or sending emails with Resend. Covers welcome emails, password resets, notifications, order confirmations, newsletters, transactional emails, and the embeddable email editor component.

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React Email

Build and send HTML emails using React components - a modern, component-based approach to email development that works across all major email clients.

Installation

npm i react-email

Or scaffold a new project:

npx create-email@latest
cd react-email-starter
npm install
npm run dev

This works with any package manager (npm, yarn, pnpm, bun) — substitute accordingly.

The dev server runs at localhost:3000 with a preview interface for templates in the emails folder.

Adding to an Existing Project

Install the packages and add a script to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "email": "email dev --dir emails --port 3000"
  }
}

Make sure the path to the emails folder is relative to the base project directory. Ensure tsconfig.json includes proper support for JSX.

Basic Email Template

Create an email component with proper structure using the Tailwind component for styling:

import {
  Html,
  Head,
  Preview,
  Body,
  Container,
  Heading,
  Text,
  Button,
  Tailwind,
  pixelBasedPreset
} from 'react-email';

interface WelcomeEmailProps {
  name: string;
  verificationUrl: string;
}

export default function WelcomeEmail({ name, verificationUrl }: WelcomeEmailProps) {
  return (
    <Html lang="en">
      <Tailwind
        config={{
          presets: [pixelBasedPreset],
          theme: {
            extend: {
              colors: {
                brand: '#007bff',
              },
            },
          },
        }}
      >
        <Head />
        <Body className="bg-gray-100 font-sans">
          <Preview>Welcome - Verify your email</Preview>
          <Container className="max-w-xl mx-auto p-5">
            <Heading className="text-2xl text-gray-800">
              Welcome!
            </Heading>
            <Text className="text-base text-gray-800">
              Hi {name}, thanks for signing up!
            </Text>
            <Button
              href={verificationUrl}
              className="bg-brand text-white px-5 py-3 rounded block text-center no-underline box-border"
            >
              Verify Email
            </Button>
          </Container>
        </Body>
      </Tailwind>
    </Html>
  );
}

// Preview props for testing
WelcomeEmail.PreviewProps = {
  name: 'John Doe',
  verificationUrl: 'https://example.com/verify/abc123'
} satisfies WelcomeEmailProps;

export { WelcomeEmail };

Behavioral Guidelines

const EmailTemplate = (props) => {
  return (
    <h1>Hello, {props.variableName}!</h1>
  );
}

EmailTemplate.PreviewProps = {
  variableName: "{{variableName}}",
};

export default EmailTemplate;

Essential Components

See references/COMPONENTS.md for complete component documentation.

Core Structure:

Content:

Specialized:

Before Writing Code

When a user requests an email template, ask clarifying questions FIRST if they haven’t provided:

  1. Brand colors - Ask for primary brand color (hex code like #007bff)
  2. Logo - Ask if they have a logo file and its format (PNG/JPG only - warn if SVG/WEBP)
  3. Style preference - Professional, casual, or minimal tone
  4. Production URL - Where will static assets be hosted in production?

Static Files and Images

Directory Structure

Local images must be placed in the static folder inside your emails directory:

project/
├── emails/
│   ├── welcome.tsx
│   └── static/           <-- Images go here
│       └── logo.png

Dev vs Production URLs

Use this pattern for images that work in both dev preview and production:

const baseURL = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production"
  ? "https://cdn.example.com"  // User's production CDN
  : "";

export default function Email() {
  return (
    <Img
      src={`${baseURL}/static/logo.png`}
      alt="Logo"
      width="150"
      height="50"
    />
  );
}

How it works:

Important: Always ask the user for their production hosting URL. Do not hardcode localhost:3000.

Styling

See references/STYLING.md for comprehensive styling documentation including typography, layout patterns, dark mode, and brand consistency.

Key Rules

Required Classes

Component Required Class Why
Button box-border Prevents padding from overflowing the button width
Hr / any border border-solid (or border-dashed, etc.) Email clients don’t inherit border type
Single-side borders border-none + the side Resets default borders on other sides

Structure Notes

Rendering

Convert to HTML

import { render } from 'react-email';
import { WelcomeEmail } from './emails/welcome';

const html = await render(
  <WelcomeEmail name="John" verificationUrl="https://example.com/verify" />
);

Convert to Plain Text

const text = await render(<WelcomeEmail name="John" verificationUrl="https://example.com/verify" />, { plainText: true });

Sending

React Email supports sending with any email service provider. See references/SENDING.md for complete sending documentation including Resend, Nodemailer, and SendGrid examples.

Quick example using the Resend SDK:

import { Resend } from 'resend';
import { WelcomeEmail } from './emails/welcome';

const resend = new Resend(process.env.RESEND_API_KEY);

const { data, error } = await resend.emails.send({
  from: 'Acme <[email protected]>',
  to: ['[email protected]'],
  subject: 'Welcome to Acme',
  react: <WelcomeEmail name="John" verificationUrl="https://example.com/verify" />
});

The Resend Node SDK automatically handles both HTML and plain-text rendering.

CLI Commands

The react-email package provides a CLI accessible via the email command:

Command Description
email dev --dir <path> --port <port> Start the preview development server (default: ./emails, port 3000)
email build --dir <path> Build the preview app for production deployment
email start Run the built preview app
email export --outDir <path> --pretty --plainText --dir <path> Export templates to static HTML files
email resend setup Connect the CLI to your Resend account via API key
email resend reset Remove the stored Resend API key

Internationalization

See references/I18N.md for complete i18n documentation. React Email supports three libraries: next-intl, react-i18next, and react-intl.

Email Editor

React Email includes a visual editor (@react-email/editor) that can be embedded in your app. It’s built on TipTap/ProseMirror and produces email-ready HTML.

See references/EDITOR.md for complete documentation including:

Quick example:

import { EmailEditor, type EmailEditorRef } from '@react-email/editor';
import '@react-email/editor/themes/default.css';
import { useRef } from 'react';

export function MyEditor() {
  const ref = useRef<EmailEditorRef>(null);

  return (
    <EmailEditor
      ref={ref}
      content="<p>Start typing...</p>"
      theme="basic"
    />
  );
}

Common Patterns

See references/PATTERNS.md for complete examples including:

Email Best Practices

  1. Test across email clients - Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo Mail
  2. Keep it responsive - Max-width around 600px, test on mobile
  3. Use absolute image URLs - Host on reliable CDN, always include alt text
  4. Provide plain text version - Required for accessibility
  5. Keep file size under 102KB - Gmail clips larger emails
  6. Add proper TypeScript types - Define interfaces for all email props
  7. Include preview props - Add .PreviewProps for development testing
  8. Use verified domains - For production from addresses

Additional Resources

Skill frontmatter

license: MIT metadata: {"author"=>"Resend", "version"=>"2.1.0", "homepage"=>"https://react.email", "source"=>"https://github.com/resend/react-email", "openclaw"=>{"install"=>[{"kind"=>"node", "package"=>"react-email", "label"=>"React Email"}], "links"=>{"repository"=>"https://github.com/resend/react-email", "documentation"=>"https://resend.com/docs/react-email-skill"}}}