Show HN: E2E-Mailbox, NPM package for ensuring emails send in your int-tests

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2 years ago

Hey HackerNews, I'm Allyn and some time ago I noticed a gap in my integration tests: emails. Emails play a vital role in the user's experience of a service, whether it's a notification, confirmation, or forgot password email. If I made a test to register a user, I had no simple way to check if the confirmation email was sent, or better yet, confirm the email address itself.

Similarly, if I wanted to test a password reset feature, I had no easy way to pull the reset pin from the "forgot password" email.

That's why I created E2E-Mailbox, an open-source NPM package that allows you to generate disposable emails and pull their contents in test environments for free. The email services are provided by DeveloperMail and GuerrillaMail, and since these are free services susceptible to service disruption, if one provider is down, the other would be used automatically.

This way, you could guarantee the correct emails are sending to the recipients of your service, and write end to end tests that take action on the info contained in those emails.

Thank you, and any feedback would be welcomed!