It’s been almost a month since my last post. I’ve been occupied learning Stripe and integrating it into an application that I’m developing. The app benefits from a billing mechanism for prospective customers and, as far as I can tell, Stripe is the solution. I’d be interested in hearing perspectives on alternatives.

As with any platform, there’s good and bad and I’ll summarize my perspective on Stripe here. It’s been some time since I developed in JavaScript and this lack of familiarity has meant that the solution took longer than I wanted to develop. That said, before this component, I developed integration with Firebase Authentication and that required JavaScript’ing too and that was much easier (and more enjoyable).