An eCommerce Storefront Using Meteor.js, Bootstrap, Knockout, Stripe, and Postgres

I built this storefront a while back to test out some ideas and also to see where Meteor was at in terms of maturity etc. I was impressed.

Building things with Meteor is a lot of fun. There are a number of packages that support the development process and , all in all, the conceptual density of the whole thing is kind of low.

Have a look through the code - it all works - just add some products, a set of StripeKeys and off you go!

Installation

Pull the source from this repo (or just download it), and then:

• Reset the settings.json and settings.development.json files
• Remove the test data/imagery and replace with your own
• Update the mup.json with your deployment settings

And you're off. The app currently stores order data in Postgres (I don't trust MongoDB, for no good reason. Also, I just like Postgres) and for that you'll need to create your checkout table:

drop table if exists checkouts;
create table checkouts(
    id serial primary key,
    reference_key uuid not null,
    cart_id varchar(50) not null,
    created_at timestamptz not null default now(),
    email varchar(255) not null,
    name varchar(255) not null,
    ip inet not null default '127.0.0.1',
    country_code varchar(2) not null default 'US',
    description varchar(255),
    items jsonb not null,
    billing_address jsonb,
    shipping_address jsonb,
    total decimal(10,2) not null default 0,
    terms_accepted boolean default false not null,
    processor varchar(20) not null default 'stripe',
    token jsonb,
    payment_details jsonb not null
)

Please note: jsonb support is only in Postgres 9.4+. If you need to use a lower version, change the datatype above to json.

Installing Postgres on Ubuntu 14.10 is recommended:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.4

su postgres && cd

createdb [your db name]
psql [your db name]

#paste the create script above here

CREATE ROLE [your db user] WITH PASSWORD [your password];
GRANT ALL ON DATABASE [your db name] to [your db user];
ALTER TABLE checkouts OWNER TO [your db user];
\q
exit
exit

If you know how to install Postgres already - go with what you know :).

Screencast of the Building of This App

I work for Pluralsight and like to create screencasts about the things I'm working on - and I did that for this project. You can watch it here.