Is there a way to modify email templates on files like TPL?

[Sebastián Cisneros]

I know that you can modify email templates in the nodebb admin screen, but I was wondering if there are some templates that I can write on a file, like TPL templates or something like that, so I can track email template file updates, and to avoid having the email template in the database.

[julian]

@sebastián-cisneros yes, the templates themselves are found in src/views/email which you can extend from within a theme.

Keep in mind you'll need to reset any overrides you've saved in the ACP before any new email templates will show

[Sebastián Cisneros]

@julian Thanks for the help, this is exactly what I was looking for. One more question tho. Where should I place the custom email tpl files?

custom-theme-folder/templates

there? like

custom-theme-folder/templates/emails

or

custom-theme-folder/views/emails

or

custom-theme-folder/templates/views/emails

or other?

[PitaJ]

You can set the templates directory to anything in plugin.json, I think it defaults to just templates if you don't specify.

https://github.com/pitaj/nodebb-plugin-calendar/blob/4368fdca0ef99336fde9875ab600349a5b13e59c/plugin.json#L26

Them you match the path from views, so it would be templates/emails where you put them.