Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Updating the user model

To use Stripe Customer to securely store the credit card information of each user and process payments as needed in the application, we need to store details of the Stripe Customer associated with each user. To keep track of the corresponding Stripe Customer information for a user in our database, we will update the user model with the following field:

stripe_customer: {},

This field will store a Stripe Customer object that will allow us to create recurring charges and track multiple charges associated with the same user in our platform. To be able to create or update a Stripe Customer, we need to utilize Stripe's Customer API. In the next section, we will update the user controller so that we can integrate and use ...