Website: add script to generate newsletter email templates, add ability to send newsletters from the admin email template preview tool - #53070
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Pull request overview
Adds newsletter email generation, admin delivery controls, subscriber tracking, archive routes, and refreshed HTML email styling.
Changes:
- Generates newsletter email templates, including the September 2026 issue.
- Adds newsletter sending from the admin preview tool.
- Tracks sent newsletters and updates newsletter routing, metadata, and email rendering.
File summaries
| File | Change | Review notes |
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website/views/pages/admin/email-preview.ejs |
Adds newsletter send controls. | Nit (3 votes): Gate the send container with isTemplateANewsletter. |
website/views/layouts/layout-email-newsletter.ejs |
Updates newsletter styling. | No review comments. |
website/views/emails/newsletter/email-newsletter-2026-09.ejs |
Adds the September newsletter template. | Moderate (1 vote): The September 10 workshop is incorrectly marked upcoming; update the source and regenerate. |
website/views/emails/newsletter/email-article-fleet-4-22-0.ejs |
Removes the legacy template. | No review comments. |
website/scripts/generate-newsletter-emails.js |
Generates newsletter HTML partials. | Moderate (2 votes): Fix suffix removal using path.basename/path.extname. Nit (2 votes): Correct the category description from newsletters to newsletter. |
website/config/routes.js |
Adds newsletter and delivery routes. | Moderate (2 votes): Remove duplicate /newsletters routes. |
website/api/models/NewsletterSubscription.js |
Adds sent-email tracking. | Critical (1 vote): Add the production database migration and required backfill for emailsSent. |
website/api/helpers/strings/to-html-email.js |
Updates Markdown email rendering. | No review comments. |
website/api/controllers/articles/view-basic-article.js |
Adds newsletter category mapping. | Nit (3 votes): Remove the duplicate newsletters key. |
website/api/controllers/articles/view-articles.js |
Adds newsletter listing metadata. | Moderate (3 votes): Remove the duplicate newsletters case that exposes TODO. |
website/api/controllers/admin/view-email-templates.js |
Sorts newsletter templates. | No review comments. |
website/api/controllers/admin/view-email-template-preview.js |
Detects newsletter templates. | Nit (1 vote): Correct veiwing to viewing. |
website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js |
Delivers newsletters and tracks recipients. | Critical (3 votes): Require emailTemplateName before calling .replace() at all cited uses. Nit (2 votes): Change “used to generated” to “used to generate.” Nit (3 votes): Correct “occured” to “occurred.” |
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website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js:51
- New subscriptions are created without
isUnsubscribedFromAll(the create action only setsemailAddress), and this model attribute has no default. Querying only forfalsetherefore omits those active subscribers, so a normal send can target nobody; exclude only records explicitly set totrue.
let activeNewsletterSubscriptions = await NewsletterSubscription.find({isUnsubscribedFromAll: false});
website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js:57
- Must fix: Existing subscriptions and rows created before a default is added can have no
emailsSentarray. Calling.includes()on that value throws before any email is sent. Initialize the value to an empty array before checking or appending.
let emailsSentToThisSubscriber = newsletterSubscriber.emailsSent;
if(emailsSentToThisSubscriber.includes(emailTemplateName)) {
website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js:57
- Should fix: The duplicate check, email delivery, and
emailsSentupdate are separate operations. Two concurrent admin requests can both observe that this template is absent and deliver duplicate messages before either request records the marker. Use an atomic claim/unique send record or serialize delivery per template.
let emailsSentToThisSubscriber = newsletterSubscriber.emailsSent;
if(emailsSentToThisSubscriber.includes(emailTemplateName)) {
website/api/controllers/admin/view-email-template-preview.js:260
- The newly added comment misspells
viewingasveiwing. Please correct the spelling.
// If we're veiwing a newsletter email template, set the isTemplateANewsletter flag to true (To show the admin a button that sends them a test email)
website/views/emails/newsletter/email-newsletter-2026-09.ejs:58
- This email labels the September 10 Washington workshop as upcoming, but the current date is September 11, 2026. Sending this newly introduced September newsletter now would advertise an event that has already happened; remove or update the event in the Markdown source and regenerate this partial before delivery.
<strong style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; color: #192147">GitOps, Washington, DC.</strong> September 10, 1pm to 5pm EDT. <a style="display: inline; color: #515774; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; text-underline-offset: 4px; text-decoration-color: #C5C7D1; font-size: 16px; word-break: break-word;" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gitops-washington-dc-tickets-1992169659078" target="_blank">Register</a>
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| emailTemplateName: { | ||
| type: 'string', | ||
| description: '' | ||
| }, |
| emailsSent: { | ||
| type: 'json', | ||
| description: 'A list of emails this newsletter subscriber was sent.', | ||
| example: [ | ||
| 'email-newsletter-2026-08', | ||
| 'email-newsletter-2026-09', | ||
| ], | ||
| }, |
| 'GET /newsletters': { | ||
| skipAssets: false, |
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| // Get the filename without the .md file extension. This will be used to build the final filename. | ||
| let unextensionedArticleFilename = _.trimRight(path.basename(markdownFileToConvert), '.md'); |
| description: 'The Fleet Newsletter has been sent to subscribers.' | ||
| }, | ||
| articleNotFound: { | ||
| description: 'The article that was used to generated the specified email template was not found.' |
| }, | ||
| ensureAck: true, | ||
| }).tolerate((err)=>{ | ||
| sails.log.warn(`When an admin sent the Fleet newsletter to subscribers, an error occured when sending an email to a subscriber (${newsletterSubscriber.emailAddress}). Full error: ${require('util').inspect(err)}`); |
| 'announcements': 'Announcements', | ||
| 'podcasts': 'Podcasts', | ||
| 'report': 'Reports', | ||
| 'newsletters': 'Newsletters', |
| friendlyName: 'Generate newsletter emails', | ||
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| description: 'Generate HTML partials for the Fleet newsletter from any Markdown article in the articles/ folder that has a "newsletters" category and does not yet have a generated email partial.', |
| <div class="dropdown-item d-block" | ||
| @click="preview = 'Tablet (landscape)'">Tablet (landscape)</div> | ||
| </div> | ||
| <div purpose="newsletter-buttons" class="ml-5 d-flex flex-column"> |
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe change adds newsletter email generation from Markdown, updated newsletter HTML styling and templates, subscriber delivery tracking, and an admin delivery API. The email preview page detects the latest newsletter and provides test and subscriber delivery actions. Newsletter routes and category mappings are cleaned up. The generated Cloud configuration gains a Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Newsletter delivery can skip valid subscribers, fail for existing subscriptions, or send duplicate emails under concurrent requests. These delivery-path issues should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js`:
- Line 57: Update the delivery flow around the duplicate check and result write
to atomically claim each recipient-and-template pair using a delivery record
with a unique constraint before sending; skip sending when the claim already
exists, and record the delivery outcome after the send.
- Line 51: Add a false default for isUnsubscribedFromAll in the
NewsletterSubscription creation/schema definition, and backfill existing records
where this field is NULL to false so the delivery query in the newsletter flow
includes new and legacy subscriptions.
In `@website/api/controllers/articles/view-articles.js`:
- Line 106: Update the newsletters handling in the relevant switch so the
reachable `newsletters` case assigns the intended newsletter page description
instead of `TODO.`; remove the later duplicate `newsletters` case because it is
unreachable.
In `@website/api/controllers/articles/view-basic-article.js`:
- Line 79: Remove the duplicate newsletters key from the mapping near the
article view configuration, keeping exactly one newsletters-to-Newsletters entry
so the no-dupe-keys ESLint check passes.
In `@website/api/models/NewsletterSubscription.js`:
- Around line 36-43: Initialize emailsSent to an empty array for new newsletter
subscriptions and ensure existing or hydrated null values are coalesced to []
before the bulk-delivery callback uses includes() or push(). Update the
emailsSent model definition and the sendToAllSubscribers delivery path while
preserving normal tracking behavior.
In `@website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js`:
- Line 35: Update both delivery methods in
website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js at lines 35-35 and 41-41 to
wrap each Cloud.deliverNewsletterEmails call in try/finally, resetting syncing
in each finally block so it clears on success or rejection.
In `@website/config/routes.js`:
- Line 304: Remove the duplicate GET /newsletters and GET /newsletters/* route
definitions in the routes configuration, keeping exactly one definition for each
route while preserving their existing handlers and behavior.
In `@website/views/pages/admin/email-preview.ejs`:
- Line 23: Conditionally render the test-send ajax-button using
isTemplateANewsletter so it is available only for newsletter templates; leave
isTemplateLatestNewsletter unchanged for bulk delivery.
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| if(sendToAllSubscribers){ | ||
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| // Get all active newsletter subscribers. | ||
| let activeNewsletterSubscriptions = await NewsletterSubscription.find({isUnsubscribedFromAll: false}); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Populate isUnsubscribedFromAll for new subscriptions.
The creation flow omits this field, and NewsletterSubscription has no default. PostgreSQL does not match NULL values with isUnsubscribedFromAll: false, so newly created subscriptions can be excluded from delivery. Add a false default and backfill existing NULL values.
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In `@website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js` at line 51, Add a
false default for isUnsubscribedFromAll in the NewsletterSubscription
creation/schema definition, and backfill existing records where this field is
NULL to false so the delivery query in the newsletter flow includes new and
legacy subscriptions.
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| // Make sure we're not sending duplicate emails to this subscriber. | ||
| let emailsSentToThisSubscriber = newsletterSubscriber.emailsSent; | ||
| if(emailsSentToThisSubscriber.includes(emailTemplateName)) { |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Make the delivery claim atomic.
Two delivery requests can read the same history at Line 57, both send the template, and only then write the same value at Line 81. This violates the duplicate-delivery guard.
Create a recipient-and-template delivery record with a unique constraint. Claim it before sending, then record the delivery result.
Also applies to: 81-81
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In `@website/api/controllers/admin/deliver-newsletter-emails.js` at line 57,
Update the delivery flow around the duplicate check and result write to
atomically claim each recipient-and-template pair using a delivery record with a
unique constraint before sending; skip sending when the claim already exists,
and record the delivery outcome after the send.
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| emailsSent: { | ||
| type: 'json', | ||
| description: 'A list of emails this newsletter subscriber was sent.', | ||
| example: [ | ||
| 'email-newsletter-2026-08', | ||
| 'email-newsletter-2026-09', | ||
| ], | ||
| }, |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Initialize emailsSent before bulk delivery.
When sendToAllSubscribers is true, a subscription created without emailsSent can hydrate it as null. The delivery callback then calls .includes(), which raises a TypeError. simultaneouslyForEach propagates that callback error, so the awaited bulk-delivery action fails. Add defaultsTo: [] for new records and backfill existing records or coalesce emailsSent to [] before calling .includes() and .push().
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In `@website/api/models/NewsletterSubscription.js` around lines 36 - 43,
Initialize emailsSent to an empty array for new newsletter subscriptions and
ensure existing or hydrated null values are coalesced to [] before the
bulk-delivery callback uses includes() or push(). Update the emailsSent model
definition and the sendToAllSubscribers delivery path while preserving normal
tracking behavior.
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| clickSendTestNewsletter: async function() { | ||
| this.syncing = true; | ||
| await Cloud.deliverNewsletterEmails.with({emailTemplateName: this.template, sendToAllSubscribers: false}); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Always clear syncing after a delivery error.
If Cloud.deliverNewsletterEmails rejects, execution skips the reset after await. The page remains in its syncing state until reload. Use try/finally in both methods.
website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js#L35-L35: resetsyncingin afinallyblock after test delivery.website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js#L41-L41: resetsyncingin afinallyblock after subscriber delivery.
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In `@website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js` at line 35, Update both
delivery methods in website/assets/js/pages/admin/email-preview.page.js at lines
35-35 and 41-41 to wrap each Cloud.deliverNewsletterEmails call in try/finally,
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| @click="preview = 'Tablet (landscape)'">Tablet (landscape)</div> | ||
| </div> | ||
| <div purpose="newsletter-buttons" class="ml-5 d-flex flex-column"> | ||
| <ajax-button :syncing="syncing" @click="clickSendTestNewsletter()">Send test email</ajax-button> |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Render the test-send button only for newsletter templates.
The preview controller sets isTemplateANewsletter to false for ordinary templates, but the template does not use that value. The button is therefore available for templates such as email-contact-form. Clicking it passes that name to deliverNewsletterEmails, which returns articleNotFound when no matching newsletter article exists. Wrap the test-send button in if(isTemplateANewsletter). Keep isTemplateLatestNewsletter for bulk delivery.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@website/views/pages/admin/email-preview.ejs` at line 23, Conditionally render
the test-send ajax-button using isTemplateANewsletter so it is available only
for newsletter templates; leave isTemplateLatestNewsletter unchanged for bulk
delivery.
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