This project is made for those who need to add custom HTML forms a static page or static website.
It is a simple nodejs server which forwards all POST submission by email. Inspired by the excellent formspree with the goal to be simpler to install and cheaper to host. No database, 100% server (nodejs), just sends the submissions by email.
Suggestion: you can automate the management of the subissions with tools like Huginn, node-red, IFTTT, Zappier
Links:
Deploy in 1 click on heroku
1- type these 2 commands
$ npm install
$ EMAIL_USER="[email protected]" \
EMAIL_PASS="abcd" \
EMAIL_HOST="mail.gandi.net" \
EMAIL_PORT=587 \
TO="[email protected]" \
npm start
2- Open http://localhost:8080 to see the HTML form which resides in form.html. Submit the form and it will send you an email with the content of the form.
3- You can customize the form, it will keep sending you all the field of the form by email.
Here are all the environment variables you can use
| Env var | description |
|---|---|
| MESSAGE | Message to displayed after the form submission. May contain HTML. Default: 'Thank you for your submission.' |
| TO | Email address to send the form to (your email) |
| FROM | Email address to use as sender address |
| SITE_NAME | Name of your site, will be displayed in the email title |
| PORT | Port to listen to for form submissions |
| FORM | Path to the HTML file containing the example form, defaults to ./form.html |
| EMAIL_HOST | SMTP config: see these options here |
| EMAIL_PORT | SMTP config: see these options here |
| EMAIL_USER | SMTP config: see these options here |
| EMAIL_PASS | SMTP config: see these options here |