Automating Emails with Strapi CRON Jobs

The tutorial outlines the process of creating an email automation system using Strapi, a flexible, open-source Headless CMS, to enhance marketing efforts by collecting user emails and sending automated messages. The guide details setting up a Strapi project, creating content types for managing subscribers and email templates, and employing cron jobs to schedule tasks for sending emails to users at specified intervals. It also involves configuring the Nodemailer provider for email service and building a front-end application using Vue 3 to collect email addresses. The tutorial highlights the potential challenges of using Strapi's built-in cron feature with clustered deployments and suggests using external scheduling services to prevent duplicate email sends. The article concludes by showcasing the full application, which can regularly update users with company information, showcasing a practical approach to learning and implementing software development techniques.