Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be integrating the paypal payment gateway inside our node.js express application using the paypal rest api sdk. All the source code of the application is given below. A step by step youtube video is also shown below.
Live Demo
You can check out the Live Demo of the App here
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install these dependencies inside your node.js project which are listed below
npm i express
npm i nodemon
npm i paypal-rest-sdk
Install all these dependencies inside your node.js project and create your index.js file for your node.js project ad copy paste the below code to it
const express = require('express');
const paypal = require('paypal-rest-sdk');
paypal.configure({
'mode': 'sandbox', //sandbox or live
'client_id': '####yourclientid######',
'client_secret': '####yourclientsecret#####'
});
const app = express();
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.sendFile(__dirname + "/index.html"));
app.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`Server Started on ${PORT}`));
Here in this block of code we need to replace the client-id and the client-secret of the paypal like this
Just replace your client-id and client-secret from your paypal dashboard inside the application. But in order to get this you need to create a business account on paypal. We can create fake sandbox accounts on paypal
Go to Paypal Developer website and create a sandbox account like this
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>PayPal Node App</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Coding Shiksha App Store</h1>
<h2>Buy For $25</h2>
<form action="/pay" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Buy">
</form>
</body>
</html>
So we have the buy button here inside the app. When we click this button a post request will be made to the route /pay so we need to make this route like this
app.post('/pay', (req, res) => {
const create_payment_json = {
"intent": "sale",
"payer": {
"payment_method": "paypal"
},
"redirect_urls": {
"return_url": "http://localhost:3000/success",
"cancel_url": "http://localhost:3000/cancel"
},
"transactions": [{
"item_list": {
"items": [{
"name": "Red Sox Hat",
"sku": "001",
"price": "25.00",
"currency": "USD",
"quantity": 1
}]
},
"amount": {
"currency": "USD",
"total": "25.00"
},
"description": "Hat for the best team ever"
}]
};
paypal.payment.create(create_payment_json, function (error, payment) {
if (error) {
throw error;
} else {
for(let i = 0;i < payment.links.length;i++){
if(payment.links[i].rel === 'approval_url'){
res.redirect(payment.links[i].href);
}
}
}
});
});
Basically here in this block of code we have made the json object containing all the properties which is required for the transaction so now we need to make the routes for the success callback and also the cancel callback events like this
app.get('/success', (req, res) => {
const payerId = req.query.PayerID;
const paymentId = req.query.paymentId;
const execute_payment_json = {
"payer_id": payerId,
"transactions": [{
"amount": {
"currency": "USD",
"total": "25.00"
}
}]
};
paypal.payment.execute(paymentId, execute_payment_json, function (error, payment) {
if (error) {
console.log(error.response);
throw error;
} else {
console.log(JSON.stringify(payment));
res.send('Success');
}
});
});
app.get('/cancel', (req, res) => res.send('Cancelled'));
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