Do you have any new features planned for MJML? If so, can you give us a sneak peek? Members are very active on the community Slack, helping each other out and working with us to make MJML better everyday thanks to their contributions. MJML is also very lightweight, flexible and you can easily create your own custom components.įinally, I think the community plays a big role in MJML. Our users also really appreciate what they call our “forward-thinking” spirit, as we roll out updates regularly and like to explore new areas with interactive components, such as mj-carousel. We consider it better to show a mobile layout on a desktop screen than a desktop layout on a mobile screen. In email clients where you can’t make a distinction between the mobile and desktop versions, like, the default layout will be shown in either case. What would you say is the primary difference between MJML and something like Foundation by ZURB?įirst, we have a completely different approach in terms of technique used: MJML is mobile-first, while FFE is desktop-first. Manipulating this code quickly got tricky as we had to play with conditional comments for Outlook, fallbacks for Gmail and every other hack, hence the idea of a layer of abstraction to make this easier. As we provide a drag and drop tool to create responsive templates, we needed to be able to programmatically manipulate responsive email HTML from UI blocks. We initially created MJML at Mailjet for our own needs, and had been using it for more than a year before open sourcing it. What was the inspiration behind creating MJML? Instead of having to deal with complex hacks and quirks proper to each email client over and over again, we bundled all of our findings as well as the community’s discoveries in a simple language that is responsive by design on every major email clients. MJML is a layer of abstraction to make responsive email easy. I’ve been leading this very exciting project since then! In two sentences, how would you sell MJML to our readers? Then, after working in the open sourcing process for MJML and seeing how rapidly the interest grew among the email community, I got the opportunity to take over the project in May 2016. I started working more on the programming and deliverability side, as I was focused on our API, meeting developer communities and advocating developers’ needs internally. As I wanted to bridge both worlds, I started developer relations in 2013, then joined the email service provider Mailjet after my internship at Microsoft, again in the DevRel team, in 2015. While I graduated from a Master in Business & Marketing, I discovered programming as a hobby while studying and instantly got hooked, becoming a self-taught developer. The Interview Can you give some background on yourself and your history in Email Development?
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