Using Mailchimp API for Newsletter-Signup

Starting

clone from github:

$ git clone https://github.com/kunstloch/newsletter.git

create Mailchimp account

Find more information here: Get Started with the Mailchimp API

install:

$ cd newsletter

$ yarn or $ npm install

add your Mailchimp authorisation credentials

Create .env file.

You need your to add unique id for audience LIST_ID(find at: Audience -> Settings) in the .env file.

Add also your API key (find at: Account -> Extras -> API keys). Use in your .env file as API_KEY

In your API key you can find the e.g. US8 US_SERVER information. It is the last part after the hypen. It looks like this: US and a number from 1 to 20.

Use it also in your .env file.

Additionally you need a user USER in your .env file. This can be any string you want to use.

So your .env file should look like this:

API_KEY=13ab63i813ee14433geacc73748aae5a-us9
LIST_ID=aee123g1ee
USER=yourusername
US_SERVER=US9

It is very important, that you never share your .env files on Git. So add .env files in your .gitignore file. (I faked all the numbers in this case)

run

$ nodemon app.js

browser

Newsletter signup can be find now here localhost:3000/ in your browser.