What we will be building. For simple shopping websites, going with full-fledged solutions like Shopify or Woocommerce can be a total overkill. In this tutorial, we’re going to build an e-commerce website using and Cosmic JS. We’ll also use , which is a UI component library for Vue JS based on the much loved . Nuxt Buefy Bulma TL;DR Download the GitHub repo Check out the demo Pre-requisites You need to have node and npm installed in your machine already. If not, visit and install the latest stable version. node js website Getting Started For our project, it makes sense to build our backend models first. **Setup Cosmic JS backend**Login to your Cosmic JS dashboard and select ‘Add new Bucket’. In the next screen, provide a name for your Bucket and select ‘Start from scratch’. **Import Bucket data**Download the file from the repository. Then go to Settings -> Import/Export page from the dashboard and import the downloaded file. Now we’ll have the objects and object types available in the dashboard. bucket.json Setting up Stripe For any e-commerce website, we’ll have to accept payment from the customer at one point or another. Setting up a payment processor used to be a difficult area, but luckily we now have a lot of convenient solutions. For our website, we’ll use Stripe. To start with, go to their and create an account. After you fill in details and everything’s setup, go to the API section and grab your public and private keys. website We’ll need these keys to configure Stripe in our website, using the much convenient element. Stripe Checkout Installing the Demo Get the source code into your machine by either downloading or cloning the repo, which is located at . Then run, https://github.com/cosmicjs/vue-ecommerce cd vue-ecommercenpm install There is one more step left before running the app. Rename the file to and file in the enviroment variables there. .env.sample .env Since the HOST variable for production needs to be 0.0.0.0, and NODE_ENV needs to be ‘production’, we’ll set them both in file, and is not needed in the file. package.json .env Now run to run the app in development mode. If you want to build for production, run and start the app with npm run dev npm run build npm start Understanding the Source Code One major perk of using Nuxt for building Vue.js applications is that Nuxt is opinionated. So one can jump into any Nuxt project and find a familiar structure there. The most important file is the . You'll find three plugins imported from the folder for Buefy, Stripe and Cosmic JS. nuxt.config.js plugins/ We’re using the as a wrapper for the Stripe’s checkout element. Visit to learn about the available options. vue-stripe-checkout Stripe documentation Any environment variable that need to be used in the client side needs to be defined in the env section and we’ll also have stripe script linked in the scripts section. The folder contains the home and cart pages. The checkout method int the cart page handles the stripe checkout. Basically what we're doing is sending the token generated by the checkout component and other identifying details to the app server. Checkout the package to learn more about the usage. pages/ vue-stripe-checkout For a simple Nuxt app, we can just use server only for SSR and have all the code shipped to client side. But in this case, we need to handle the stripe checkout separately in the server. Inside the folder, we have the Express server setup in file and a single route handler in file. We'll first create a customer in Stripe with function and then charge with function. Check out to learn more about the implementation. server/ index.js api/index.js stripe.customers.create stripe.charges.create https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/express Once the payment is successful, we’ll add the order to our Cosmic JS Bucket under the ‘Orders’ object type. Deploying the App Deploying the app with Cosmic JS is pretty easy. Just go to your Bucket and then navigate to Settings -> Deploy to Web. Provide your Github repository url and the branch to be deployed. Cosmic makes the Bucket slug, read key and write key environment variables available by default. Choose the repository there and branch to deploy (which in most cases is master), and click ‘Deploy to Web’. That is all there is to it and you will get a confirmation mail once deployment is successfull. Once it succeeds, do not forget to supply the stripe keys and environment variables through the ‘Set Environment Variables’ section in case you haven’t setup file. .env PS: Any e-commerce app needs to be secured with https. So do enable SSL in your app from deployment section when going live.

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