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Update Authgear email templates using the correct source files, translation files, and commit order. Use when editing email wording, email structure, or subject lines.

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Update Email Templates

Follow this workflow whenever updating email templates.

Scope Rules

  1. Only edit source template files:
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.txt.gotemplate
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.mjml.gotemplate
  2. Do not edit generated template files directly:
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.txt
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.mjml
  3. In *.txt.gotemplate and *.mjml.gotemplate, use translations from:
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/translation.json
  4. Always edit English templates only at source stage.
    • Do not manually update non-en locales in source-edit commits.
  5. Email subject translations are defined in:
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/translation.json

Workflow

  1. Edit source templates first:
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.txt.gotemplate
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/*.mjml.gotemplate
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/messages/translation.json (body/content translations)
    • resources/authgear/templates/en/translation.json (subject translations)
  2. Generate .mjml from .mjml.gotemplate:
    • go run ./scripts/generatemjml/main.go -i resources/authgear/templates
  3. Commit source edits and generated .mjml in one commit.
  4. Before regenerating non-English translations, delete the changed keys from all non-en locale files so the generator knows to recreate them:
    • For en/messages/translation.json changes, delete the top-level key (e.g. UsageAlert, not UsageAlert.Alert.Title) from all non-en messages/translation.json files:
      • make templates-translation-json-del-key KEY=<TopLevelKey>
    • For en/translation.json subject changes, delete the changed key from all non-en translation.json files:
      • make translation-json-del-key KEY=<key>
    • Run once per changed top-level key.
  5. In a separate commit, generate non-English translations:
    • make -C scripts/python generate-translations
    • Requires being logged in to Claude: claude login
    • If not logged in, stop and ask the user to run claude login first.
  6. Finally, generate HTML emails:
    • make html-email

Commit Boundaries (Required)

  • Commit 1:
    • Source edits (*.gotemplate, en/messages/translation.json, optional en/translation.json)
    • Generated .mjml
  • Commit 2:
    • Generated non-English translations (make -C scripts/python generate-translations)
  • Commit 3:
    • Generated email HTML artifacts (make html-email)

Do not combine generated artifacts (.html, .txt, non-en translations) in the same commit as source *.gotemplate edits.