How to make a serverless webhook for email alerts, using Gatsby Functions

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SendGrid

For email I chose to use Sendgrid. I also considered Nodemailer, but Sendgrid has a nice email template feature where my API can fetch URL, article title and excerpt from Contentful, and pass this information along to the email template in Sendgrid. Then the user receiving the email can click on a link in the email to open the article that was just published on the condo's web site.

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ExpressJS

What I have made could easily be adapted to other needs or purposes. If you're not using Gatsby, you don't need to make any big changes to make it work with Netlify Functions or Next.js API routes. The code is pretty similar to how you would create this using the Node.js Express framework.

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