What is Stripe?

Stripe is a comprehensive payment processing platform that enables businesses to accept online payments, manage subscriptions, and handle complex financial transactions. Frontend Accelerator integrates Stripe using the adapter pattern, providing a flexible and maintainable architecture for payment processing.

Stripe offers a robust set of features that make it ideal for modern web applications:

• Payment processing: Accept credit cards, debit cards, and digital wallets
• Subscription management: Handle recurring billing and subscription lifecycle
• Secure transactions: PCI DSS compliant with built-in fraud prevention
• Global support: Accept payments in 135+ currencies from customers worldwide
• Developer-friendly API: Comprehensive REST API with extensive documentation

Adapter Pattern Integration

Frontend Accelerator implements Stripe using the adapter pattern, which provides several architectural benefits:

• Flexibility: The adapter pattern allows you to switch payment providers without changing your application code. If you need to migrate from Stripe to another provider, you only need to update the adapter implementation.
• Testability: Mock payment adapters can be easily injected during testing, allowing you to test payment flows without making real API calls.
• Consistency: All payment operations follow a consistent interface regardless of the underlying provider, making your codebase more maintainable.

Implementation in Frontend Accelerator

The Stripe adapter in Frontend Accelerator handles:

• Payment intent creation and confirmation
• Webhook event processing for real-time updates
• Subscription creation and management
• Customer creation and retrieval
• Secure token handling

The adapter pattern ensures that payment logic remains decoupled from your business logic, following SOLID principles and making your application more resilient to changes in payment infrastructure.