punit-shah / contact-form-api

A Serverless AWS service for sending emails with a contact form.

contact-form-api

A Serverless AWS service for sending emails with a contact form. Used for the form on my website.

Setup

1. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/punit-shah/contact-form-api.git
   cd contact-form-api

2. Install dependencies

   yarn
   

3. Provide AWS credentials to Serverless

   yarn sls config credentials --provider aws --key YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID --secret YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
   

4. Create a secrets.json file

   cp secrets.example.json secrets.json
   

   Set the following values:

   • NODE_ENV - the stage to deploy to ("dev" or "prod")
   • EMAIL - the email address to send emails to (must be verified with AWS SES)
   • DOMAIN - the domain your form lives on

5. Deploy the service

   yarn deploy
   

Testing the service

• Run the function locally with the data in data.json

  yarn invoke-local
  

• Invoke the deployed function with the data in data.json

  yarn invoke-remote