Installing Stripe for magento 2

On this occasion and in some future posts for brevity I will cut the extraneous text and just list the sequence of commands I had to follow / steps taken. I find when following other peoples' guides I get frustrated when the extra "fluff" distracts me from the few commands I need to enter. Explanations will be given where needed, but no fluff.


1. Download the plugin from https://stripe.com/docs/plugins/magento/install#download
I downloaded the composer version

2. Place the file in the same directory as your composer.json. Typically this is the root magento folder. Copy it by FTP or whatever.

3. SSH into the machine or if a dev instance using docker then docker exec -it <magento2dev> bin/bash to get to the console (I test using docker - I will document this later also, highly recommended).

4. Switch to the folder you put the file in and tar -xvf stripe-magento2-x.x.x.tgz

5. composer require stripe/stripe-php:^6

• 6. php bin/magento setup:upgrade
• php bin/magento cache:flush
• php bin/magento cache:clean

7

• php bin/magento setup:di:compile 
• php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
• php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Then go to the backend and configure it from stores->configuration.