BEE plugin wrapper

A really simple module for use the BEE editor www.beefree.io

What the hell is BEE?

Long story short is a drag-&-drop editor for responsive design emails. It makes easy and quick to create a great-looking email message that can be used to send a company newsletter, announce a new product, promote a sale, etc.

You can embed into your application :) BEE have a free version so you can embed the editor anywhere, regardless of pricing model.

How to use it

go to developer portal 'https://developers.beefree.io/signup'
sign up with the free plan
create your application
get clientId and clientSecret

Demo

It's free to use on 'https://beefree.io': you don't even need to create an account of any kind.

Do you want try out an integration locally?

Install Node and npm.
clone this repository
npm install or yarn install in the folder cloned
put your clientId and clientSecret on ./config/integrationKeys.js
npm start
Open http://localhost:3030.
Have fun!

You want this module for your project?

install

You can either install it with npm or yarn.

npm install --save bee-plugin

yarn add bee-plugin

Get token

You need to be authorize to start with the editor, learn more here

It is not raccomended to do it client side but is possible with the module, just call getToken

import Bee from 'bee-plugin'

const beeTest = new Bee()

beeTest.getToken(clientId, clientSecret)

Initialize the plugin

initialize the instance of BEE with a token generate server side

import Bee from 'bee-plugin'

const beeTest = new Bee(token)

Configuring the editor

It required a configuration for using the editor, learn more here

Here an example of configuration, read the official documentation for extended

const beeConfig = {
  uid: 'test1-clientside', //needed for identify resources of the that user and billing stuff
  container: 'bee-plugin-container', //Identifies the id of div element that contains BEE Plugin
  language: 'en-US',
  onSave: (jsonFile, htmlFile) => {
    console.log('onSave', jsonFile, htmlFile)
  },
  onSaveAsTemplate: (jsonFile) => {
    console.log('onSaveAsTemplate', jsonFile)
  },
  onSend: (htmlFile) => {
    console.log('onSend', htmlFile)
  },
  onError: (errorMessage) => {
    console.log('onError ', errorMessage)
  }
}

Template JSON

It required a initial template for start editing, learn more here

Some json avaible here https://github.com/BEE-Plugin/BEE-FREE-templates

Methods

getToken(clientId, clientSecret)

Pass your keys on parms and return a promise, example:

const clientId = 'MYclientId'
const clientSecret = 'MYclientSecret'
const beeConfig = {...}
const template = {...}
const beeTest = new Bee()

beeTest.getToken(clientId, clientSecret)
.then(() => {
  .then((res) => res.json()) //return fetch promise
  .then((template) => beeTest.start(beeConfig, template))
})

new Bee(token)

Initialize a classe with token that are store on constructor

start(beeConfig, template)

After the initizalization you can call start for create the editor on page, the method need two params:

BEE configuration (js object)
Template (JSON)

load(template)

After you have started the editor is possible to change the template, just calling load with the new template

save()

After you have started the editor is possible to trigger the save that trigger the callback onSave define on the configuration for getting fresh HTML of the email and the json template updated.

saveAsTemplate()

After you have started the editor is possible to trigger the saveAsTemplate that trigger the callback onSaveAsTemplate define on the configuration for getting only the current json of the instance.

Test (WIP)

npm test

yarn test

MicheleBertoli / bee-plugin