Add a Billing API

Chapter Comments
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Link to chapter - https://serverless-stack.com/chapters/add-a-billing-api.html

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So… if I understand the instructions correctly, we’re supposed to run sudo npm install --save stripe in serverless-stack-2-api then create a billing.js inside serverless-stack-2-api?

Because I ran sudo npm install --save stripe in both serverless-stack-2-api as well as the folder before it (the second run understandably failing due to lacking a package.json), but I couldn’t find an existing billing.js

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Yup this chapter deals with the backend API.

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Yes, you need the package for your backend API

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Hi, found an issue with the stripe env variable. Stripe shows that API_KEY was missing when using

const stripe = stripePackage(process.env.stripeSecretKey);

However, using the same name as in .env variable, it worked:

const stripe = stripePackage(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY);

Maybe is an issue on my system, but I think this should be reviewed and chnaged if procedes.

Regards!

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Hmm that’s weird because in the next chapter (https://serverless-stack.com/chapters/load-secrets-from-env.html) we do this:

environment:
    tableName: notes
    stripeSecretKey: ${env:STRIPE_SECRET_KEY}

And that sets it as stripeSecretKey for your code to use.

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Yeah, the thing is I have added that to the environment but it didn´t work. I don’t know the reason, although the capital letters version works. Just for anyone having a the same issue.

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Can the Stripe option be “optional?”

Meaning is it possible to deploy the application as written without the billing portion?

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Yeah totally. You can ignore the Stripe call here and just pretend that the call was successful.