--- title: Stripe for Visual Studio Code slug: stripe-for-visual-studio-code published_at: 2021-06-21 17:00:28 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:25 +0000 summary: description: Harness the power of the Stripe CLI directly inside your editor to build, test, and use Stripe inside your editor with the new Stripe for VS Code extension. Stripe’s extension for Visual Studio Code makes it easy to generate sample code, view API request logs, forward events to your application, and use Stripe within your editor. ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Install VS Code 01:30 Install the Stripe extension from the marketplace 01:51 Install the Stripe CLI 03:12 Clone a Stripe Sample 05:29 Stream webhook events 06:47 Stream logs 08:36 Forward webhook events 11:08 Triggering events 11:46 Expand code snippets 12:18 API reference links 13:31 Quick links ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Official documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-vscode ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments tags: [stripe, payments, shipped, stripe for vs code, vs code, vs code extension, extension, stripe cli, office hours, @cjav_dev] views: 6168 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/stripe-for-visual-studio-code youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fATvgUMWLzU youtube_id: fATvgUMWLzU embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fATvgUMWLzU thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fATvgUMWLzU/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Stripe for Visual Studio Code *Published: June 21, 2021* *Views: 6168* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fATvgUMWLzU) [![Stripe for Visual Studio Code](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fATvgUMWLzU/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fATvgUMWLzU) ## Description Harness the power of the Stripe CLI directly inside your editor to build, test, and use Stripe inside your editor with the new Stripe for VS Code extension. Stripe’s extension for Visual Studio Code makes it easy to generate sample code, view API request logs, forward events to your application, and use Stripe within your editor. ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Install VS Code 01:30 Install the Stripe extension from the marketplace 01:51 Install the Stripe CLI 03:12 Clone a Stripe Sample 05:29 Stream webhook events 06:47 Stream logs 08:36 Forward webhook events 11:08 Triggering events 11:46 Expand code snippets 12:18 API reference links 13:31 Quick links ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Official documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-vscode ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments ## Transcript [Music] we all know that having the right tool at your fingertips can help you be more productive after speaking with many many developers we wanted to bring the power of the stripe cli even closer and so we've built a vs code extension that lets you integrate test and use stripe directly inside your editor you can stream logs and web hook events in real time browse and clone stripe samples and auto complete code snippets in all of our officially supported server languages welcome back to stripe developer office hours i'm cj developer advocate here at stripe and i'm excited to walk you through setting up and using the brand new stripe for vs code extension in this episode you'll learn how to install the extension how to clone a sample which is an end-to-end example showing how to use one of stripes products we'll stream events and logs from your stripe account directly into vs code and then we'll test a web hook integration by forwarding events that happen on your stripe account directly to a locally running server and we'll also expand some code snippets and show how to link out directly to the api reference from vs code so if you don't already have vs code installed you can head over to code.visualstudio download to download visual studio code and get started i have the version for mac already installed so i'm going to open that up here so i'm going to open visual studio code and when you enter the application on the left hand side in the activity bar i'm going to click on the icon for extensions to pull up the extensions marketplace here i can search for stripe and we'll pull up the stripe for vs code extension i'm using version 1.7.8 so here i'm going to click install that'll install the extension into vs code and immediately you'll notice that this new s appears in the activity bar and that's where we're going to access most of the features of the extension now one prerequisite for many of the features of the vs code extension is to have the stripe cli installed so if you're curious about the the steps for installing the cll you can click on this install stripe cli button that's actually going to open the documentation showing you how to install the cli using a variety of different installation tools i have homebrew installed locally so i'm going to use brew install here to install stripe cli with homebrew i'm going to pull up a terminal directly in vs code and i will drop in that command to brew install once the extension is installed you need to run stripe login in order to connect to your stripe account so i'm going to run stripe login here which will present a pairing code and when we click enter a browser window will be opened where we can authenticate with the cli i can see the matching pairing code i'm going to say allow access now our cli installation is authenticated with our stripe account now we can head back over to vs code once we have installed the stripe cli we'll need to restart vs code in order to view the the tools for the extension so i'm going to close out and reopen vs code now when we click on the s we see several tools that are available to us at the top we have events logs samples quick links and then help and feedback let's get started in samples so when you're first starting out with stripe it can be helpful to see and play with a full end to end working example and that's what we can do when we say start with a stripe sample now here you'll see a list of a variety of different samples showing different integrations the very first one here except a payment shows us how to accept a payment in a variety of different payment method types there's two different options we can use a pre-built checkout page or build a custom flow with elements let's try the custom payment flow there's a couple different client languages we can use react with create react app or html or several mobile implementations let's just use html today with a simple node backend now we have the opportunity to say where we want to clone this sample to i'm going to pick office hours and say clone sample we can say open in the same window and this will download and clone this working end to end example with an html frontend and a node backend so that that's pretty cool now what we can do is we can actually jump into the server directory so we can say cd into server and then we can say npm install to pull down the dependencies now if we wanted to we can also use the npm scripts tool that's here on the left and we can actually just click the play button next to start for the server this will fire up a node server listening on port 4242 so we can click on this link to open the sample in the browser and here you see a variety of different payment method types maybe if we start off with card we click on card we can copy one of these test card numbers and then enter in some test details and hit pay this card in particular requires secure customer authentication and we'll open this 3d secure modal in test mode this is what we're going to see and we can say complete authentication and down in the logs we'll see that the payment succeeded and we have a link out to the payment intent if we click on that link we're actually brought to the stripe dashboard for that payment intent so that's pretty handy and is part of the stripe sample now in the stripe dashboard under the developer section you'll see a variety of really helpful tools here we have events and logs in our web hook settings if we were to dig into the events we'll see that payment intent that just succeeded and it's kind of handy to have the event data that was sent as part of that web hook notification and so one of the things that we wanted to bring even closer to you inside of the stripe cli was the ability to look at these events directly in the editor so what we can do is we can say start streaming events we can click on the play button here next to start streaming events and then if we go back through our payment flow maybe if we try a different payment method type here let's try bing contact and then we hit pay this will walk us through the payment flow for the band contact payment method type we can say authorized test payment and this is causing api requests in the background on the server that are going to fire events on our stripe account so now we again see this payment intent succeeded but rather than going to the stripe dashboard i can just pull up in the editor and i can see all of the recent events that fired here on the left under the recent events drop down now if i wanted to i could drop into this payment intent succeeded event and i can see the json data for that event directly in the editor this is super handy especially when you're trying to debug or figure out you know what properties are available you know what what uh what is the balanced transaction is that the full object or just the id of the balance transaction for instance um you can see other things here like the id of the payment that that occurred super handy and if we wanted to we can also say stop streaming events uh if you want to clear out all those recent events you can click this little icon that has the x there next to the lines and that's so that that can be really handy another thing that is pretty useful in the stripe dashboard is this logs uh the logs view where we can see all the different requests that are coming in and you can inspect them and see the resp the response body and some other information directly here in the stripe dashboard this is another feature that we wanted to bring even closer so if in the logs pane here we can say start streaming api logs this is going to similar to events we'll connect to our stripe account and start streaming out the logs that are firing for our account so let's go back into our demo here and we'll go back home we can walk through maybe another payment method type here let's try alipay so alipay is a popular wallet in china if we can say authorized test payment and again now we have the payment succeeded so we could drill into that payment on the stripe dashboard or we can go back to our editor here and we can see those uh those request logs that are streaming in directly to the editor now what's really cool is we can look at one of these logs and we can click on the log and that shows us the uh the api request directly in the editor so this is really interesting to be able to see that right here so for instance we can hover over this request id and say open the log in the dashboard this will open up directly in the dashboard so again we can see all the details we can see the request post body and the response body for that request so this again is pretty handy also knowing what the request id was can also be handy if you're working with technical solutions engineers or looking for support when talking about a specific request that may have failed for some reason or that you have questions about that can be a handy id to have so that is logs similarly you can stop streaming those event logs and click the clear button to clear those out alright so let's head into the next phase i'm going to close the logs pane one core component to every stripe integration is a webhook handler we've built tools directly into the stripe cli for testing your webhook handler so that you don't have to set up ngrok or any special tunneling or deploy to qa or staging or even production to test your web hook handling so let's head back over to our sample code and look at server and server.js and here you'll see our node implementation for this example has a route for config for fetching the publishable key it also has a route for creating the payment intent and here down at the bottom we actually have a route for receiving webhook notifications from stripe so our server that's listening on port 4242 for localhost is able to receive post requests directly from stripe to this slash webhook handler using some of the tools that are part of the extension so let's go back into the extension here and look at another feature of the events pane for forwarding events to your local server so here the very first argument is going to be the webhook url to which we want to forward a web hook events that are firing on your account so we're going to enter for localhost 4242 webhook for our account events when we press enter that will set the url for our account event webhook and if you've if you've worked on a stripe connect integration you'll know that connect web hooks are sent to another webhook endpoint optionally you can have them also sent to the same webhook endpoint so here we can say let's also send connect events to the slash webhook endpoint and that will start up the stripe listener which is going to form a direct connection between stripe and your locally running server so that when events fire on your stripe account they are forwarded to this locally running server so we'll go through the flow again using a different payment method type perhaps we use pre-authorized debit in canada also known as acss and we click pay this will again create a payment intent and then walk us through the flow for uh successfully confirming a payment intent we'll pay 1999 canadian and we can see that the payment is in the processing status if we head back to the extension here we can see that payment intents are created processing we have the charges pending and if we look at the webhook handler we're listening for the event type paymentintent.succeeded and when that fires we're going to log out to the console that the payment was captured so in the terminal here for the stripe listener we can see that the payment intent succeeded event fired now if we change back to the server terminal we'll see this payment intent captured log statement was printed out to the terminal and so this is one way that you can forward events directly from your stripe account in to the editor you might be wondering that's a lot of steps to go through just to test your web handler you have to actually go through the whole payment flow and so we've created a tool for just triggering any event directly so here we can say trigger new event and we can select from a variety of event types so if we wanted that payment intent succeeded event to fire again we can click on this payment intent succeeded event type and this will create all of the api requests required in order to result in a payment intent succeeded event so again if we go back to our terminal we see another payment captured log statement printed out to the terminal here that's one way that you can test your web hook events let's get into the editor and start writing some code i'm going to close out the terminal here and maybe as part of our create payment intent endpoint we decide that we want to create a customer object to associate these payments with so one thing that's really handy with the new stripe for vs code extension is there are code snippets that can auto expand so if i wanted to create a stripe customer i can say stripe customer create and then hit tab and that will automatically populate the stripe node syntax for creating a customer i can optionally change the description here and say hello stripe devs also a really handy feature is that you can hover over any of these methods and then go directly into the stripe api reference to look at the api call for creating a customer this can be really handy when you're trying to reference which arguments and parameters are available for this api call so here we can just drill in and see that oh email is a an optional parameter here so we can say email is jenny.rosen at example.com now we could take this customer object that was returned from this api call and pass that into our parameters customer is dot customer.id and now when we create a payment intent it will be associated to a given customer this works because vs code knows what file type the extension is and we know what stripe client library is associated with that file type so for instance i created a new file here and we save this as test.rb for ruby and if we want to create a new checkout session we could say stripe check out sessions create and hit tab this will pre-populate with several of the arguments for creating a checkout session this can be really really handy and you'll notice that this is now using the stripe ruby client library when it's auto expanding that snippet so this is also super handy i wanted to cover just a couple more features of the extension we've got some quick links that will drop you right into the dashboard where you expect to be we also have help and feedback we would really appreciate your feedback about this extension any improvements that we might make so you can click on this rate and provide feedback which will open up a google form that you can just fill out and provide any feedback that you have about the extension we'd really really appreciate your feedback and we're constantly trying to iterate and improve as someone who works with the stripe api every single day i know that parts of this extension are really going to speed up my workflow hopefully some of the tips in here will increase your productivity thank you so much for your time and attention we really appreciate it and we'll see you in the next one you --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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