stripe-node VS stripe

Head to Stripe and register if you haven't already. We can use the Stripe API in Test Mode to build the e-commerce app. You can add a bank account and get verified later when you're ready to start collecting real payments.

Stripe published its 2023 annual letter last week. Much like the previous edition it was filled with a lot of interesting nuggets. Stripe has a strong history of being fairly transparent with its practices. These range from engineering challenges through its blogs as well as thought leadership in the financial and entrepreneurship space. I personally like the writing style of this letter as it doesn’t seem corporate or stuffy. Instead it is filled with humorous anecdotes, quirky observations and intelligent historical narratives which make it a compelling read. You can read the letter here → Stripe Annual Letter: 2023

Stripe – payments

Imagine you want to create an API endpoint that allows users to register in your backend, while simultaneously making a payment towards Stripe. This could be for something that's a subscription-based service, where you charge people for access to something.

Our app – Upollo – connects with your app event data (like Segment) and payment data (like Stripe) to analyze your users and instantly figure out if someone is an important player in your industry. We also help you convert more users, reduce churn, and expand single seats to teams within a company. We're SOC 2 certified and we take data security very seriously.

That's cool - my page is still under development. But have you tried running it on something like https://stripe.com/ to see if the generates interesting results. Could share results here? DMing you also

Stripe is a great example of this as their margins on the side are visible with a faint line. All content is inside this except for some images and decorations.

Before going through the integration process, you need to sign up for a Stripe account. Go to the Stripe website and follow the registration process. Once you're signed in, you'll have access to the API keys needed to communicate between the server and your Stripe.

New API version released: Version 2022-08-01 of the Stripe API has been released along with major version upgrades to all official client libraries, namely Dotnet, Go, Java, PHP, Node, Python, and Ruby. Read more about breaking changes in the API upgrades section and how to upgrade.

All I can give is my experience (been coding professionally for maybe 12-15 years) but I never looked at patterns like you are for a LONG time. I had no choice but to code in a "simple, straightforward" style because I didn't know anything fancy. I just did everything the normal, dumb way.

That said, things often become complicated because you don't have the skills to keep them simple (for example, you draw the boundaries between your modules wrong, or you fail to abstract the right things, leading to tight coupling and information leaking). So it's pretty normal for your software to be a mess for the first decade or so.

You should just keep writing your project, and as you find as the developer certain things on it are harder than they should be / frustrating / take too long, that will indicate a problem. Then you can keep trying to refactor until you get it right. Writing bad software is how you learn to write good software.

You asked for an example and I just gave you a bunch of philosophy, so I'll give you at least one. It depends on your language and what you're doing but I use Go a lot, and I think Stripe is pretty good at keeping things straightforward https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go

Unfortunately my experience has been different; I found that Stripe's Go doc doesn't match their API and while searching on it I found that someone else had mentioned that to their personnel over freenode 2 years ago.

So I raised an issue on GitHub[1] on Apr 9 and hasn't been attended to yet.

On a more serious note, Stripe's payment links doc seemed to imply that tax rates are automatically calculated if the tax rates are set(as we do with code when we pass the tax_id), But I found after couple of payments that tax aren't being charged, On conversing on Twitter with the payment links dev I came to realize that the required option was not there for me[2] and then after couple of hours with their support staff I was informed that the options was not available for India as 'Stripe Tax' is a separate product.

Overall, I'm happy with Stripe's tech; at least compared to the other options I have. But their docs have caused me some frustrations.

[1] https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/issues/1447

[2] https://twitter.com/joshuaackerman/status/144759582096702259...

Stay compliant with updated KYC regulations: We’ve added future_requirements support to our Java, PHP, .NET, Go, and Node SDKs. This parameter enables developers to know account verification requirements and deadlines.

A nice feature of keeping the idempotency key separate from the payload is that a service like Stripe can build tools to help users with idempotency even if the user has no idea what an idempotency key is.

For example, take a look at stripe-go's implementation, which automatically tags a request with a key if the user didn't specify one:

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/blob/67034d2205c0240ade9...

This works for all mutating requests, and is useful because the built-in retry system will automatically reuse the same key that was generated. Users can get the benefits of idempotency without really having to understand very well what's going on under the hood.

I suppose you could still do that by munging each request body, but IMO it's a nice feature to make sure that requests are the same as what the user specified. Also note that in practice the implementations are probably not that wildly different under the hood — despite being in a header, Stripe's idempotency is still being handled by the same application stack which processes the payment (i.e. not a middle box or load balancer).

Stripe has seven main client libraries — Ruby, PHP, Python, Node, .NET, Go, and Java — and we wanted to give junior developers a foundation of broadly applicable knowledge to help them in all of their Stripe development going forward.

Thank you to our top open-source contributors this month: joeltaylor, ybiquitous, gogainda (stripe-ruby); masterjus (stripe-php); westy92, msternow (stripe-android); ees37 (stripe-go); Fonata (stripe-cli); rdsedmundo (stripe-node); hibariya (stripe-samples); risentveber, vinistock, jaredbeck, ryanwilsonperkin, anandvc, RyanBrushett, paracycle (sorbet).

Thank you to our top open-source contributors this month: merrickfox, bayandin (stripe-go); KaanOzkan, Morriar, RyanBrushett, sharpobject, paracycle, kddeisz (sorbet); hibariya, maeda-kazuya, (stripe-samples); jofftiquez (stripe-js).