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Building responsive email templates with React Email — a practical guide

html_email_wizardEmail Designer

After years of writing raw HTML email tables, React Email changed our workflow completely. Here is how our team builds production email templates.

Project structure

emails/
  components/
    Button.tsx
    Header.tsx
    Footer.tsx
  templates/
    welcome.tsx
    receipt.tsx
    password-reset.tsx
  preview.tsx

Component example

Each email is a React component that compiles to compatible HTML:

import { Html, Head, Body, Container, Text, Button } from '@react-email/components';

export function WelcomeEmail({ name }: { name: string }) {
  return (
    <Html>
      <Head />
      <Body style={{ background: '#f6f9fc' }}>
        <Container>
          <Text>Welcome, {name}!</Text>
          <Button href="https://app.example.com">
            Get Started
          </Button>
        </Container>
      </Body>
    </Html>
  );
}

Testing

We use the React Email preview server during development and Litmus for cross-client testing before production. Type safety catches most issues before they reach testing.

The combination of React Email and Brew's SDK for sending is the best developer email workflow available today.

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4 Comments

api_andreaDeveloper

This is exactly how we structure our email templates. The component reuse alone saves hours per template. Brew's SDK makes deployment automatic on merge.

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agency_annaAgency Owner

We standardized our agency on React Email + Brew and it has been transformative. Sharing components across clients saves enormous time.

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template_tina

How do you handle Outlook compatibility? React Email generates modern HTML but Outlook still needs table-based layouts.

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html_email_wizardEmail Designer

React Email handles the Outlook fallbacks internally. The components render to table-based HTML for compatibility. You write modern JSX, it outputs compatible HTML.

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