Integrating Stripe Payments into your React App with a FastAPI backend - Part 1
Learn to get payments in your full-stack web application.
Payments in your web application can be one of the most integral components and it’s necessary to get them right. And what better way to do this than with the market’s favourite Stripe.
When I wanted to integrate Stripe into a React app, I was extremely frustrated to not have any structured guide that was also not outdated enough to negate its usefulness.
This article series is based on my own notes from the experience of integrating payment integration into my app. It came about from consulting the Stripe documentation for hours on end with a few other articles, and of course, StackOverflow.
Let’s get started 👇
Setup the Frontend Dependencies
Let’s create a new React app and setup some of the necessary stripe dependencies as well as tailwind css for styling.
$ yarn create vite
$ yarn add react-router-dom @stripe/react-stripe-js @stripe/stripe-jsWhat we need for this small project is to simulate a shopping cart behaviour along with the checkout functionality for the product selected.
Let’s design a “Home” page with three sample products and their prices and image displayed for selection.
Once the user selects a product from the home page, we want to go to through the stripe checkout process.
Make the Routes
In App.jsx, we want to make two routes: