Gatsby e-commerce Workshop

Jamstack frameworks are changing the way we build top-of-the-line experiences on the web. They are performant, secure and enable developers to build web apps faster than before. In this workshop, Nick DeJesus will walk you through what it’s like to build an e-commerce site using Gatsby, use-shopping-cart and theme-ui. You will learn how serverless functions help you make secure transactions and how to build accessible UI components that extend use-shopping-cart’s abilities.
From this workshop, you will learn:

How to install a gatsby theme
How theme-ui can help make building systemized UIs easy via the theme object
How to use theme-ui components and how to access the sx prop
About some of Gatsby’s life cycle methods within gatsby-node, gatsby-browser and gatsby-ssr
How to create Schema Customizations with Gatsby graphql
How to create GraphQL nodes with Gatsby
How to create pages from a source of data with gatsby-node
How to set up templates to pass data to your pages
How to initiate Stripe in your Gatsby app
How to wrap your gatsby app in a provider (use-shopping-carts )
How to make accessible components with use-shopping-cart
How to set up serverless functions with netlify
How to get to Stripe’s Checkout via use-shopping-cart

Get Started

Make sure you go to your Stripe Dashboard, get your API secret and Public keys, and add them to .env.development like this:
GATSBY_STRIPE_API_PUBLIC=pk_test_YOUR_KEY_HERE
STRIPE_API_SECRET=sk_test_YOUR_KEY_HERE

Install the Netlify CLI
Run ntl login to hook up to their Netlify account
Click the Deploy to Netlify Button below to create a copy of the workshop repo
Clone the repo you just created
ntl link to hook up to it
ntl dev to build