Angular 4 Transactional Email with Google Firebase Cloud Functions

In this episode, I am going to show you how send transactional email in Angular as a background task in cloud. To facilitate this, the emails will be send with Google Cloud Functions for Firebase and the email service Sendgrid. You can use any email provider you want such as mailgun or postmark or even Gmail, but I will chose Sendgrid for this tutorial because they have a solid helper library and a detailed NodeJS example in their documentation. They also offer a free trail with no credit card requirements, so get your API key to follow along with this lesson. What is a Cloud Function? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless architecture that allows you to run isolated code in a NodeJS ru ... #angular #angular_4 #angular_2 #firebase #webdev #app_development #typescript #javascript #lesson 20170615 wCtNjP9gcqk