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.