Email form with formspree.io

Doing more with static sites

I am a big fan of Jekyll. Generated static site hosted on gh-pages and now the ability to send email previously reserved for the back end, what's not to love?

Demo

Working on gh-pages (note: emails will go to me):

• https://joshmccall221.github.io/applecreek-main/
• https://github.com/joshmccall221/applecreek-main

Step 1:

• Update form to use formspree.io form

<form action="https://formspree.io/your@email.com"
      method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <input type="email" name="_replyto">
    <input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

Step 2 :

• Run and test locally

gem install jekyll bundler
bundle install
jekyll serve 
# Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/

Step 3 :

• Confirm email (only first email)

• Submit test email

Step 4 :

• Deploy

git commit -am "adding formspree.io emailing"
checkout -b gh-pages
git push

• Test live form

• Read emails! :)