#Caramel

A responsive email framework

Caramel is a responsive email framework built with Salted on top of Harp.

Building HTML emails may be old school, but your workflow doesn't have to be. Harp static website generator is builtin so you can take advantage of base layouts, semantic templates and testing.

Integrate CSS extensions like Sass or LESS to craft more robust CSS. Simply change the file extensions from stylesheets\*.scss to stylesheets\*.less Automate common tasks like compiling CSS preprocessors to CSS, CSS inlining and pushing to email service providers like Mandrill.

Caramel does the following for you:

1. Compiles your SCSS to CSS (or LESS to CSS)

2. Builds your Responsive HTML email templates

3. Inlines your CSS

4. Uploads your email templates to Mandrill (optional)

##Running Caramel Get a Mandrill API Key (it's free) to play around. Then update go to gulpfile.js:

var mandrill_client = new mandrill.Mandrill('MANDRILL-API-KEY');

Then update MANDRILL-API-KEY to your Mandrill account. Then:

gem install premailer
npm install
gulp
open http://localhost:9000/src/salted

To see on your mobile device, do something like:

open my-computer-name.local:9000/src/salted

Caramel uses Gulp for running tasks. If there is another task you need, just add the new task to gulpfile.js.

##Emails The responsive HTML emails are in the src folder. Text versions of each email are found in src\_data.json. Each HTML email should have a corresponding text version.

##Push HTML Templates To Mandrill Then run this gulp task:

gulp esp

That's it. Your HTML templates are now on Mandrill.