1.0.0 💌

Today, we released a bunch of improvements to MailMason’s workflow as well as the starter templates that ship with it. We've been blown away by the support we've received with MailMason. This has been a long time coming.

Improved integration with Postmark

• You can now push templates and layouts up to Postmark using the postmark-cli tool
• MailMason’s layouts are now compatible with Postmark layouts

Template design improvements

• 3 generic layout options to help you get up and running
• Each template now uses Nunito Sans as the main typeface. Fallback fonts for older versions of Outlook have also been considered.
• Dark mode support in all layouts. Works with email clients that support the prefers-color-scheme:dark media query.

Accessibility

• Background and text colors now pass AA contrast ratios defined by WCAG 2.0
• Added role="presentation" to container tables so that they are not unnecessarily read by screen readers

Codebase

• Upgraded node.js version to 10.16.0(LTS) in .nvmrc
• Upgraded node.js packages
• Stylesheets are now compiled to /dist/stylesheets instead of /src/stylesheets
• Each layout comes with its own stylesheet for layout-specific theming
• Reorganized /src and /dist folder structure.
  • Each template or layout is stored in its own folder
  • Each template or layout has a meta.json file so that it can be uploaded to Postmark. This lets you control things like the name, alias, template type, etc.
  • Templates that are combined with layouts are compiled to /dist/compiled. CSS is also inlined by default with these templates.
  • Postmark specific templates and layouts are compiled to /dist/postmark-layouts and /dist/postmark-templates. CSS is not inlined by default since Postmark handles it for you.

Upgrading to 1.0.0 from 0.X

We've put together a guide on how to migrate templates from an older version of MailMason to the latest version.

Thanks to those of you that use MailMason and continue to support this project ❤️