Nodemailer body with qrcode image

Question

I'm creating the server with express and want to send mail with QRcode inside the body

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var nodeMailer = require('nodemailer');
var sql = require("mssql");
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var QRCode = require('qrcode')
app.use( bodyParser.json() );       // to support JSON-encoded bodies
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({     // to support URL-encoded bodies
  extended: true
})); 

app.post('/send-email', function (req, res) {
        QRCode.toDataURL('data invoice untuk di kirim melalui email', function (err, url) {
            let data = url.replace(/.*,/,'')
            var img = new Buffer(data,'base64')

        })
          let transporter = nodeMailer.createTransport({
              host: 'test',
              port: 587,
              secure: false,
              auth: {
                  user: 'tes',
                  pass: 'password'
              }
          });
          let mailOptions = {
              from: 'test', // sender address
              to: 'test', // list of receivers
              subject: 'Test Email Node JS', // Subject line
              text: 'Halo ini dari node js', // plain text body
              html: 'Halo ini barcodenya </br>' + img // html body
          };

          transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (error, info) => {
              if (error) {
                  return console.log(error);
              }
              //console.log('Message %s sent: %s', info.messageId, info.response);
                  res.render('index');
              });
      });

I get an error that img is not defined.

Variable img is what the qr code, and for the string it will get the string from SQL query.

Any source for this?

Answer 1

1. QRCode.toDataURL is a asynchronous function but your trying to use as synchronously. Use Promises and Async/Await in place of callback function.
2. Your sending a image as buffer but its need to be in base64 with image tag

Here are the code snippet changes,

...

app.post('/send-email', async function (req, res) {

    let img = await QRCode.toDataURL('data invoice untuk di kirim melalui email');

    let transporter = nodeMailer.createTransport({
        host: 'test',
        port: 587,
        secure: false,
        auth: {
            user: 'tes',
            pass: 'password'
        }
    });
    let mailOptions = {
        from: 'test', // sender address
        to: 'test', // list of receivers
        subject: 'Test Email Node JS', // Subject line
        text: 'Halo ini dari node js', // plain text body
        html: 'Halo ini barcodenya </br> <img src="' + img + '">' // html body
    };

    transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (error, info) => {
        if (error) {
            return console.log(error);
        }
        //console.log('Message %s sent: %s', info.messageId, info.response);
        res.render('index');
    });
});

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