Is it possible to export single email instead of all of them?

[minikolic]

Goals

1. I would like to export a single email by passing the additional argument to the export command

Background

Our system has hundreds of emails, and exporting them takes some time to complete. It would be great if additional flags can be passed to the export command to export only the given email instead of all of them. It would be a huge time saver.

Proposal

something like this should work:
export --email my-cool-email.tsx
export --email my-cool-email.tsx --email my-other-cool-email.tsx

[gabrielmfern]

Why exactly would it be a time saver? Is it because you are doing email export consecutive times while doing consecutive changes to emails? If that's the case, could an email export --watch do it better for you here?

[minikolic]

Nope, we are using a live preview during the development phase, which fulfills our needs for most cases. But invoking export command (usually on the Github Action) takes ~5 mins to complete. And we are expecting this time to grow, as soon as we add more emails to the system. We are using HTML files for two cases:

• We are uploading HTMLs to the external mail system that handles email sending. In many cases, we upload just a few html files per run, so we would like to have an optimized export command, that will export just the necessary things.

• During the developing phase, sometimes, we pass HTMLs to the Thymeleaf engine that uses given files to validate exported HTMLs as we are injecting Thymeleaf expressions into the emails. For this validation, we would also like to export just one or few emails