Libra

An e-commerce platform leveraging the power of static sites and FaaS

Libra is built using a few technologies/services:

• Middleman generates the site
• Netlify hosts it
• AWS Lambda (via Netlify) verifies transactions
• Stripe processes payments

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Demo

A demo site can be found running at https://libra-shop.org.

Usage

To use Libra for your own store:

Stripe Setup

• create a Stripe account
• get your API keys (public and private)
• add products+skus in Stripe

Repository/Codebase Setup

• fork/clone this repository
• style files in the source directory 🎨
• update demo, site_name, stripe_key_public, copyright, and host in config.rb

Netlify Setup

• connect your repository to Netlify
• add a build environment variable to Netlify for STRIPE_KEY_SECRET with the value of your private Stripe API key
• update your domain information on Netlify and your DNS host
• update your netlify.toml GO_IMPORT_PATH key
• update the _redirects file appropriately