Contact Us Backend

This project creates a backend for a "Contact Us" form. It uses a Gmail account to send you an e-mail on behalf of someone else, e.g. a visitor to your site.

Run this project on DataFire.io

Running on DataFire.io

• Go to the Integrations tab, and add a new Gmail account.
• Select the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send scope.
• Click "Add Account" and log into the Gmail account you want to send messages from
• Navigate to the Actions tab, and click on contact_me
• Replace YOUR_EMAIL@gmail.com with your own email address
• Click "Deploy"
• Select prod
• Click "Deploy Project"

Running Manually

To run this project manually:

git clone https://github.com/DataFire-repos/contact-us-base
cd contact-us-base
npm install
datafire authenticate google_gmail
# Choose the gmail.send scope
# Edit ./actions/contact_me.js and replace YOUR_EMAIL@gmail.com with your email address
datafire serve

Using the API

There is one URL for this API - POST /contact. It accepts both urlencoded and JSON content.

If you're running your project on DataFire.io, replace http://localhost:3000 with your project's host, e.g. https://project-name.prod.with-datafire.io.

HTML form

<form action="http://localhost:3000/contact" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="emailAddress">
  <textarea name="message"></textarea>
</form>

cURL

curl -X POST "http://localhost:3000/contact" \
  -d 'message=hi&emailAddress=me@example.com'

curl -X POST "http://localhost:3000/contact" \
  -d '{"message": "hi!", "emailAddress": "me@example.com"}'
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'