Your users want to design their own emails. You don't want to spend months building an editor.

In this post we add a complete drag and drop email builder to a fresh Vite + React app, step by step. It's the written version of a 9 minute video where every step is filmed for real.

🎥 Watch the video: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7519114078284562432

What you need: a React app (ours is a fresh Vite app) and Node 18 or newer.

1. Create an account and a token

Sign up at mailkaro.com . Sign in is passwordless: every sign in uses a one time code sent to your email, and an account can only be signed in on one device at a time.

Then open Embed & API , click Generate new token , and choose which features the token exposes, for example:

Save, export and history

Uploads and assets

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You get two keys:

Key Starts with Where it goes

Publishable pk_live_ your frontend

Secret sk_live_ your server only, never in frontend code

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