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Using Jekyll as the CMS for my items and GitHub Pages for the hosting I am able to display my photos for free. Using Stripe on the front-end and an Heroku inst
by jacobroyquebec 11y ago
Using Jekyll as the CMS for my items and GitHub Pages for the hosting I am able to display my photos for free.
Using Stripe on the front-end and an Heroku instance to process the payments, I can process orders without a cost.
If you'd like, I can show you bits of my code! :)
- tiernano 11y agoLooks good... Is the full site on git hub?
- jacobroyquebec 11y agoYes! here's the repo https://github.com/lejacobroy/blog https://github.com/lejacobroy/blog Thanks!
- dougk16 11y agoVery nice! I'm looking to do a simple store just like this for a physical craft and was considering options. Could you explain or link more to how you used Heroku?
- jacobroyquebec 11y agoYes! Since GitHub Pages dosen't let me run actual code (can't use it as a full-stack server, only to show html pages), I use heroku to actualy process the payment (Stripe on GitHub Pages captures the infos and send it using POST to my heroku instance). My heroku instance runs heroku-stripe-checkout (https://github.com/christophercliff/heroku-stripe-checkout https://github.com/christophercliff/heroku-stripe-checkout) but it's a bit outdated and I made some changes (to support shipping and the new Stripe API), which I described here : https://github.com/christophercliff/heroku-stripe-checkout/issues/3#issuecomment-151134399 https://github.com/christophercliff/heroku-stripe-checkout/i...