Stripe Subscription Payment with React.js and Node.js

In this series of articles, we will be building a subscription payment system using Stripe, React.js, and Node.js. This is the first part of the series, where we will focus on the frontend implementation using React.js.

Setting up React.js

First, we need to set up a new React.js project. If you haven’t already installed create-react-app, you can do so by running the following command:

npx create-react-app stripe-subscription-frontend

Once the project is created, navigate to the project directory and start the development server by running:

cd stripe-subscription-frontend
npm start

Integrating Stripe Elements

Stripe provides a set of pre-built UI components called Stripe Elements that we can use to securely collect payment information. To use Stripe Elements in our React project, we need to install the @stripe/react-stripe-js and @stripe/stripe-js packages:

npm install @stripe/react-stripe-js @stripe/stripe-js

Then, we can initialize Stripe and create a Stripe Element to collect the customer’s payment details:

// App.js
// ...
import { loadStripe } from '@stripe/stripe-js';
import { Elements } from '@stripe/react-stripe-js';
const stripePromise = loadStripe('YOUR_STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY');
function App() {
return (

);
}
export default App;

Creating Checkout Form

We will create a checkout form component to collect the customer’s payment information and process the subscription payment. This form will use the Stripe Element to collect the customer’s card details:

// MyCheckoutForm.js
// ...
const MyCheckoutForm = () => {
const stripe = useStripe();
const elements = useElements();
const handleSubmit = async (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
// Process payment using stripe.confirmCardPayment()
}
return (

);
}
export default MyCheckoutForm;

With this setup, we have successfully integrated Stripe’s subscription payment with our React.js frontend. In the next part of this series, we will focus on the backend implementation using Node.js to handle the payment processing and subscription management.