Set up your development environment
Get familiar with the Stripe CLI and our server-side SDKs.
Stripe’s server-side SDKs and command-line interface (CLI) allow you to interact with Stripe’s REST APIs. Start with the Stripe CLI to streamline your development environment and make API calls.
Use the SDKs to avoid writing boilerplate code. To start sending requests from your environment, choose a language to follow a quickstart guide.
Chrome extensions
We recommend you build your payment integration with Stripe (such as Elements or Checkout) on your own website. Then, set up your Chrome extension to send users to this payment page when they’re ready to complete a purchase.
This method is more secure and easier to maintain than trying to handle payments directly within the extension.
In this quickstart, you install the Stripe CLI – an essential tool that gets you command line access to your Stripe integration. You also install the Stripe Node.js server-side SDK to get access to Stripe APIs from applications written in Node.js.
What you learn
In this quickstart, you’ll learn:
- How to call Stripe APIs without writing a line of code
- How to manage third-party dependencies using the npm or yarn package manager
- How to install the latest Stripe Node SDK v19.0.0
- How to send your first SDK request
Initial setup
First, create a Stripe account or sign in.
Install
From the command-line, use an install script or download and extract a versioned archive file for your operating system to install the CLI.
Authenticate
Log in and authenticate your Stripe user account to generate a set of restricted keys. To learn more, see Stripe CLI keys and permissions.
Press the Enter key on your keyboard to complete the authentication process in your browser.
Confirm setup
Now that you’ve installed the CLI, you can make a single API request to Create a product.
Look for the product identifier (in id) in the response object. Save it for the next step.
If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.
Next, call Create a price to attach a price of 30 USD. Swap the placeholder in product with your product identifier (for example, prod_).
If everything worked, the command-line displays the following response.
The latest version of the Stripe Node.js server-side SDK is v19.0.0. It supports Node.js versions 12+.
Check your Node version:
Initialize Node
Install the library
Install the library with npm, a package manager for Node:
After you install the library with npm, the library is automatically added as a dependency in your project’s package.json file. For example:
Yarn – You can install the library with yarn, another package manager for Node:
Now that you have the Node.js SDK installed, you can create a subscription Product and attach a Price with a couple of API requests. The Node.js SDK returns promises which can be used as chainable callbacks. To demonstrate, we’re passing the product identifier returned in the Product response to create a Price in this example.
Note
Save the file as create_. From the command line, cd to the directory containing the file you just saved and run:
If everything worked, the command line shows the following response. Save these identifiers so you can use them while building your integration.