A picture of Sjors van Holst playing VR in nature
A picture of Sjors van Holst playing VR in nature

Sjors van Holst

Mailgun

A Mailgun API wrapper for Deno, created to send emails from Deno Deploy instances, providing typed support for the mail-sending endpoint.

I'm a big fan of Deno and Deno Deploy. I encountered a problem when attempting to send emails from my deploy instances due to Deno Deploy blocking commonly used SMTP ports. Initially, I tried setting up a relay, but I prefer to avoid server management at all costs. This led me to use Mailgun for sending emails.

The NPM Mailgun package didn't support Deno at the time, so I created a Mailgun API wrapper native to Deno. This package only covers the mail-sending API, is fully typed, and supports the entire endpoint. I'm glad I limited the Mailgun package to this essential part, as I can consider it “done.”. The package has a few GitHub stars, and it's nice to know my code is helping someone. I know all too well the feeling of finding the right package when you thought you'd have to do it yourself.