Simon Ho | Software Developer Blog

MyCMS is an open-source Content Management System to generate static online shop website. You can use my hosting to input your products, or you can download the source codes and host it in your own server (running NodeJS). Please refer to my Github repo for the detailed installation instructions. This blog is a step-by-step tutorial that shows you how to create an online-shop theme. In this tutorial, it’s using my hosting to input the shop details and products. If you’re hosting the MyCMS by yourself, just change the domain name to yours will do. Introducing MyCMS Before making the theme, you’ll need to use MyCMS to configure the demo shop and input two demo products. MyCMS generates a static website via a theme. The generated static website is NO server program required. You can put the website files (HTML/CSS/JS) to any CDN, hosting. Shop Configuration You must prepare below settings Before using MyCMS: Setting Description Example Store name Your store name will be displayed in t...

This Blogpost compares the payment experience from three popular payment processors: PayPal , Braintree , and Stripe . This comparison is from the developer’s point of view. This is NOT to compare the prices and services. We will only concern the payment experience and coding effort. We will do: Backend codes in NodeJS-Express. Frontend codes in Pug, jQuery, Bootstrap 4. Whole payment process flow and its appearance. Compare the three SDKs and evaluate security. Please note that all payment processes are in Sandbox (development) platform. The source codes are host in this Github repo Project setup First of all, you’ll need NodeJS . The version is: node -v && npm -v v6.10.3 5.4.2 Enter your payment access keys (PayPal, Braintree & Stripe) into the .env file. The content is: PAYPAL_MODE='[sandbox|production]' PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID='[Your PayPal Client Id]' PAYPAL_CLIENT_SECRET='[Your PayPal Client Secret]' BT_ENVIRONMENT='[Sandbox|Production]' BT_M...