Simple Seller

A simple storefront.

Purpose

I wanted to create the simplest, cheapest possible web storefront that still offered flexibility for non-technical users. This is the result:

• Light NodeJS deployed to AWS Lambda for free tier web serving
• Simple Svelte deployed to AWS S3 + Cloudfront for free frontend hosting
• Orders and shop config stored in DynamoDB, also free tier
• Uses Google Sheets as a CMS for easy updating of goods, and viewing orders
• Stripe Checkout handles payments seamlessly

More details on it are here: http://malcolmcrum.com/blog/2020/04/21/storefront.html

Instructions

Most of the essentials are in Make for easy re-use.

• After editing the UI, make sync to rebuild, copy to S3, and invalidate Cloudfront cache
• After editing the backend, make deploy to transpile Typescript and deploy to AWS
• To add another shop, make add-shop STAGE=(stage) id=(id) SPREADSHEET_ID=(google spreadsheet ID) STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY=(stripe public key) STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=(stripe secret key) EMAIL=(email for order confirmations)

License

MIT.