stripe-js VS node

At ReadMe, we’re constantly keeping an eye on the best DX out there, and we’ve come to notice a trend. Many of the top API-first companies out there offer their own custom SDKs, such as Stripe, Twilio, and Plaid (and I’m only linking to their JavaScript SDKs!).

Due to PCI compliance requirements, the Stripe.js library has to be loaded from Stripe's servers. This creates a challenge when working with server-side rendered apps, as the window object is not available on the server. To help us manage that complexity, Stripe provides a loading wrapper that allows importing Stripe.js like an ES module:

This approach was no different when I started thinking about the SprintDock website (a working title) and backend infrastructure needed for the first time back in April 2021, when I was still working full-time. This was until I started playing around with Stripe JS.

Stripe.js should not require React to run - I wouldn't recommend using React unless you want it for some other reason. Maybe check out the docs here for how to get started? https://stripe.com/docs/js

Implement Stripe JS to collect card details and convert to token on the frontend

That’s all for this tutorial. Hopefully it has given you an understanding of how to process Stripe payments in a Node.js application. There are many more configurable options available not used in this tutorial. To discover all these options the offical Stripe.js documentation is an excellent resource.

Thank you to our top open-source contributors this month: marcoscannabrava, viablecell (stripe-js), williammartin (stripe-node), jmarkowski, kronthto, hibariya (stripe-samples), alihussain5, Morriar, tophattom, richardxia, RyanBrushett, karmakaze, alexdunae, Bo98, kddeisz (sorbet).

For a payment gateway, you should check out Stripe. You can use their JavaScript SDK which allows you to take payment (https://stripe.com/docs/js). A competent developer with experience in these SDKs could wire up a payment gateway anywhere between a day and a couple of days.

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-js strikes perhaps the most realistic balance possible, recognizing that NPM is an insecure place for their core JS logic that creates a PCI compliant iFrame, and so their NPM package is just a loader for a script tag hosted securely. And yet they encourage people to use NPM for the wrapper itself. Which is just as vulnerable to supply chain attacks as anything else on NPM. If this isn't tacit acknowledgement of a "new standard" I don't know what is. I absolutely agree that it's problematic.

Node.js

To install and run Ember.js, you'll need to follow these steps: Install Node.js and npm (Node Package Manager) on your computer. You can download the latest version of Node.js from the official website. Once Node.js and npm are installed, open a terminal window and run the following command to install the Ember.js command line interface (CLI):

NodeJS - Link

To get involved in the Node.js developer community, you can join community discussions or begin with learning if you’re new. The community discussion houses a GitHub list of issues related to Node.js' core features. If you want to chat in real time about Node.js development, there are Slack groups, and you can still connect with IRC clients or web clients when using the browser. Node.js has a calendar for public meetings.

Download the latest version from the Node.js website, open the package installer, and follow the instructions Use a package manager like Homebrew with the command brew install node On Linux, you can consult this page to determine how you should install Node.

As with all experimental things, a few things are missing. Some of these might lead to people using dotenv until support for these gets added. I will mention them here and let you see if they are dealbreakers. You can also follow the GitHub issue to track missing feature support.

Node

Depending on the stack of the repository you are cloning, you might have to install additional dependencies. For this demo, I'm using my own website, which is a static website built with Astro.js. It which requires to have Node.js installed and Yarn for package manager.

A working Node.js v20+ environment

We will be using the self-hosted version of Renovate distributed via npm, but you can adapt the scripts in this article to use the Docker version, or others. Make sure you have Node.js installed on your machine.