const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');

const {
  keys,
} = require('../../config/config');

async function forgotPassword(req, res) {
  
  try {
    //...
    sgMail.setApiKey(keys.sendGridKey);
    const msg = {
      to: `${req.body.email}`,
      from: '[email protected]',
      subject: 'Forgot password request',
      text: 'You get this email because of you asked to reset password',
      html: `<strong>${token}</strong>`,
    };
    sgMail.send(msg);
   
    res.sendStatus(200);
  } catch (error) {
   
    res.status(500).json(error.message);
  }
}

const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');

const {
  keys,
} = require('../../config/config');

async function forgotPassword(req, res) {
  
  try {
    //...
    sgMail.setApiKey(keys.sendGridKey);
    const msg = {
      to: `${req.body.email}`,
      from: '[email protected]',
      subject: 'Forgot password request',
      text: 'You get this email because of you asked to reset password',
      html: `<strong>${token}</strong>`,
    };
    sgMail.send(msg);
   
    res.sendStatus(200);
  } catch (error) {
   
    res.status(500).json(error.message);
  }
}

I have this code snippet in my nodejs project. Which is working correctly. But the only problem is this isn't work in async manner. I try to find that in the official docs and I couldn't find that in there. Putting await in the send function, is that all I need to do to make this work as an async function.

await sgMail.send(msg);

• javascript
• sendgrid

• Are you concerned about response here ? Do you really need to check response ? if not then let it be fire and forget. – CoronaVirus Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 4:59
• this isn't work in async manner what do you mean? Why have you made the function async if you are never using await? – Jaromanda X Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 4:59
• perhaps if you read some documentation and use the Promises that .send returns, you'd get asynchrony :p ... quick fix ... await sgMail.send(msg); ... done – Jaromanda X Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 5:03

1 Answer 1

They added example to send async in GitHub

Here is the code:

const sgMail = require('@sendgrid/mail');
sgMail.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
const msg = {
  to: '[email protected]',
  from: '[email protected]', // Use the email address or domain you verified above
  subject: 'Sending with Twilio SendGrid is Fun',
  text: 'and easy to do anywhere, even with Node.js',
  html: '<strong>and easy to do anywhere, even with Node.js</strong>',
};
//ES6 Old way
sgMail
  .send(msg)
  .then(() => {}, error => {
    console.error(error);

    if (error.response) {
      console.error(error.response.body)
    }
  });
//ES8 - Async example
(async () => {
  try {
    await sgMail.send(msg);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);

    if (error.response) {
      console.error(error.response.body)
    }
  }
})();