Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Creating a new Stripe Customer

If the current user does not have a corresponding Stripe Customer – in other words, a value is not stored for the stripe_customer field – we will use the create a customer API (https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_customer) from Stripe, as follows.

mern-marketplace/server/controllers/user.controller.js:

myStripe.customers.create({            email: req.profile.email,            source: req.body.token      }).then((customer) => {          User.update({'_id':req.profile._id},            {'$set': { 'stripe_customer': customer.id }},            (err, order) => {              if (err) {                return res.status(400).send({                  error: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)                })              }              req.body.order.payment_id = customer.id              next()        })})

If the Stripe Customer is successfully created, we will update the current ...