A simple express app that handles contact form submissions and sending an email to the site owner
Be extremely careful with your API token; mail services such as Sendgrid, Mailgun and others automatically-detect if you inadvertently expose your API token. While this is useful for security purposes, you will be locked out of using your account until you've taken measures to secure your account.
Always be sure to add all *.env* files to your .gitignore file.
SENDGRID_API_KEY=<sendgrid_api_key_with_mail_send_access>
SENDER_EMAIL=<automated_sender_email_address>
CONTACT_EMAIL=<your_email_address>
Once you have signed up for a SendGrid account, click "Settings" > API Keys. Then, click "Create API Key".
Select the following access level:
Then, you only need to enable the following setting for this API key, since all it will be doing is sending mail:
