MEAN.JS Contact Form - angularjs

Question

Trying to create a contact form and feedback form for my website. Here is my route and controller I'm using however I need to understand what's going on with my routes and how to capture the input fields from the form implement this inside MEAN.JS:
route.js:
app.route('/mail').get(mail.createmail);
app/controller.js:
exports.createmail = function(req, res) {
var mailOpts, smtpTrans;
// create reusable transporter object using SMTP transport
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
user: 'administrator#radleaf.com',
pass: '34Girls34*goo'
}
});
// NB! No need to recreate the transporter object. You can use
// the same transporter object for all e-mails
// setup e-mail data with unicode symbols
var mailOptions = {
from: 'Fred Foo ✔ <foo#blurdybloop.com>', // sender address
to: 'ty#radleaf.com', // list of receivers
subject: 'Hello ✔', // Subject line
text: 'Hello world ✔', // plaintext body
html: '<b>Hello world ✔</b>' // html body
};
// send mail with defined transport object
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function (error, info) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Message sent: ' + info.response);
}
});
};
Not sure how this work with the HTML with the view:
<form action="mail">...</form>

Answer 1

If I understand the question correctly, you're asking how you can gather data which is input into a form, send that data to expressJS, and then use that data to send an outbound email.
If so, then here is your flow:
Step 1: Create a form in a view and map it to an AngularJS controller
<form name="contactForm" data-ng-submit="sendMail()">
Name: <input type="text" data-ng-model="contact_name">
Message: <input type="text" data-ng-model="contact_msg">
<button type="submit">
</form>
Step 2: In your AngularJS controller, use a $http request to send your data to your Express Route
$scope.sendMail = function() {
// Simple POST request example (passing data) :
$http.post('/mail', {name: contact_name, msg: contact_msg}).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// this callback will be called asynchronously
// when the response is available
}).
error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// called asynchronously if an error occurs
// or server returns response with an error status.
});
}
Step 3: Use your ExpressJS Route as an API to call your ExpressJS Controller.
(It looks like you've got this bit covered)
app.route('/mail').get(mail.createmail);
Step 4: Receive and do something with the data passed through the $http POST
exports.createmail = function(req, res) {
var data = req.body;
Now you can use the data, like this
var mailOptions = {
from: data.name, // sender name
text: data.msg, // plaintext body
};
MeanJS 0.4.0 also has a working example of NodeMailer which might help: https://github.com/meanjs/mean/tree/0.4.0

Answer 2

With angularJS, you can remove the action attribute, and just use angularJS ngSubmit directive, and call a function in your controller which would now visit the endpoint with $http.get.