Node.js Express Stripe CLI Project to Create Webhooks For Payment Checkout Event in Javascript

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be integrating the stripe webhooks in node.js and express for the payment checkout event in command line. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to first of all download the stripe cli inside your local machine by executing the below commands as shown below

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-cli/releases/latest

And now you need to extract the content from the file and move the exe file into the working directory

And now after that you need to make a new node.js project using the below command

npm init -y

npm i express stripe

Now you will see the below directory structure of the node.js app as shown below

And now we need to make the index.js file of the express app and copy paste the below code

index.js

const stripe = require("stripe")("##secretkey##");
 
const express = require('express')
 
const bodyparser = require('body-parser')

const app = express()

 
app.listen(5000, () => {
    console.log("App is listening on port 5000")
})

const stripe = require("stripe")("##secretkey##");

const express = require('express')

const bodyparser = require('body-parser')

const app = express()

app.listen(5000, () => {

console.log("App is listening on port 5000")

})

Here you need to copy paste your own secret key from the stripe dashboard as shown below

Now we need to execute the below commands to login in the stripe account and make the hook inside the stripe

stripe login

This will login into your stripe account automatically.

And now we need to create the webhook for our endpoint which is localhost:5000 it can be done as shown below

stripe listen --forward-to=http://localhost:5000/hooks

Now after you execute this command you will get your signing secret as shown below

And now you need to make the post request inside the index.js file as shown below

index.js

app.post('/hooks',bodyparser.raw({type:'application/json'}),async(req, res) => {
    const payload = req.body
    const sig = req.headers['stripe-signature']
    const endpointsecret = "##endpointsecret##";
    let event;
 
    try {
 
        event = stripe.webhooks.constructEvent(payload,sig,endpointsecret)
        
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error.message)
        res.status(400).json({ success: false })
        return;
    }
    console.log(event.type)
    console.log(event.data.object)
    console.log(event.data.object.id)
    res.json({
     success:true
    })
})

app.post('/hooks',bodyparser.raw({type:'application/json'}),async(req, res) => {

const payload = req.body

const sig = req.headers['stripe-signature']

const endpointsecret = "##endpointsecret##";

let event;

try {

event = stripe.webhooks.constructEvent(payload,sig,endpointsecret)

} catch (error) {

console.log(error.message)

res.status(400).json({ success: false })

return;

}

console.log(event.type)

console.log(event.data.object)

console.log(event.data.object.id)

res.json({

success:true

})

And now we need to trigger the event where the payment checkout takes place by the customer and for this we can execute the below command as shown below

stripe trigger customer.created

Now if you execute the command after you start the application by executing the command

nodemon index.js

So you can see the customer object will be created automatically when the payment checkout event takes place.