Hello, I’m building my portfolio and I added a form to it for people to contact me. I was just wondering what can be the best way to implement a way to receive messages or emails with the information from the form, for when the form is submited?
Thank you, I hope someone can answer or guide me in the right direction.
<form action="mailto:someone@example.com" method="post">
...inputs
<Input type="submit" value="Send email"/>
</form>
That will attempt to open the user’s email client and fill in the email. Not bulletproof though.
To do anything else, you need a backend (server-side component) for the email to go out from - the form posts to the backend, the backend sends the email. There are services that provide this though - https://formspree.io/ for example.
SMS/chat etc are more complex.
Also, simply putting your email address and allowing people to contact you that way is normally all that’s needed: on most platforms clicking it opens the email client anyways. Useful exercise to build a contact form though