Accepting a payment

An Express server implementation

You can 🎥 watch a video to see how this server was implemented and read the transcripts.

Requirements

• Node v10+
• Configured .env file

How to run

1. Confirm .env configuration

Ensure the API keys are configured in .env in this directory. It should include the following keys:

# Stripe API keys - see https://stripe.com/docs/development/quickstart#api-keys
STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test...
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=sk_test...

# Path to front-end implementation. Note: PHP has it's own front end implementation.
STATIC_DIR=../../client/html

2. Install dependencies and start the server

npm install
npm start

3. The react frontend will be running on localhost:4242. Follow the instructions in the README there to install and start the frontend server.