Astro Storefront (Alpha)

Your storefront deserves best-in-class performance without the learning curve.

Astro has spent years building the right foundation for content-driven websites, and ecommerce is naturally the next frontier. This repository showcases the top features that our community uses to ship with confidence:

• Islands architecture with SolidJS for the smallest possible runtime cost.
• On-demand rendering with CDN caching to deliver pages at the speed of HTML.
• astro:actions to build simple, type-safe endpoints for managing the user's session.
• astro:assets for on-demand image optimization. Backed by Netlify CDN, Sharp, or your favorite image provider.
• astro:env for environment variable management and type-safety.

Astro Storefront powers shop.astro.build today, and our opinionated choice of services and libraries reflects that. We expect this repository to be the start of a new platform to meet your storefront's needs.

Project structure

The primary project directories are outlined below:

├── public/
├── src/
│   └── actions/
│   └── components/
│       └── ui/
│   └── features/
│   └── pages/
└── package.json

actions/ contains backend functions called from the client to manage a customer's cart. These are called client-side and backed by optimistic updates.

components/ui/ contains reusable components for common UI elements, including Buttons, Drawers, and Inputs. These are tested to meet modern accessibility guidelines.

features/ contains domain-specific components and state management, organized by common ecommerce concepts:

• product/ - Used on the product landing page (PDP) and recommendation carousels.
• collection/ - Used to display product collections with sorting logic.
• cart/ - Used to manage the cart flyout and related client-side state.

pages/ contains file-based routes for your storefront.

• pages/api/ manages customer checkout using Stripe.
• pages/orders/ displays the customer's receipt on successful checkout.
• pages/collections/ displays product collections with dynamic filtering.
• pages/* displays all other base-level routes.

Services

This repository connects to related services to power payments, emails, and map embeds. Visit the astro.config.ts file for an overview of all environment variables and access permissions required for each.

You are welcome to change or entirely remove any of these services to meet your needs.

Storefront API

shop.astro.build uses a custom API to manage products and fulfill orders.

This client isn't available for public use today, though we've provided a "mock" version of all API functions under src/lib/client.mock.ts. We recommend using this file as a way to standardize requests for your ecommerce provider of choice.

To use the mock API, update the tsconfig.json entry for the storefront:client module:

{
	"compilerOptions": {
		"paths": {
			"~/*": ["./src/*"],
-			"storefront:client": ["./src/lib/client.ts"]
+			"storefront:client": ["./src/lib/client.mock.ts"]
		},
	}
}

Stripe

The Stripe API is used to accept payment and manage the checkout flow.

Environment variables

• STRIPE_SECRET_KEY - A Stripe API key used to authenticate requests.

Loops

Loops.so is an email sending service used to send a confirmation email to the customer after checking out successfully.

Environment variables

• LOOPS_API_KEY - A Loops API key generated through their admin console.
• LOOPS_SHOP_TRANSACTIONAL_ID - The ID of a Loops transaction email to send to a customer when an order is placed. See src/lib/emails.ts for related email template data.
• LOOPS_FULFILLMENT_TRANSACTIONAL_ID - The ID of a Loops transaction email to send to you (the seller) for order fulfillment. See src/lib/emails.ts for related email template data.
• LOOPS_FULFILLMENT_EMAIL - The seller's email address to receive a receipt for fulfillment.

Google Maps

The Google Maps Platform is used to embed a map with the customer's shipping address on the order details page.

Environment variables

• GOOGLE_GEOLOCATION_SERVER_KEY - A Google API key with permissions to use the Geolocation API. This key is only used server-side and can be created with an IP address app restriction.
• GOOGLE_MAPS_BROWSER_KEY - A Google API key with permissions to use the "Maps JavaScript API." This key is publicly available on the client and must be created with a Website app restriction to only allow access from your project's deployment URL.

Commands

This project uses pnpm to manage dependencies. Be sure to install this tool, then run startup commands from your terminal:

Command	Action
pnpm install	Installs dependencies
pnpm dev	Starts local dev server
pnpm build	Build your production site to ./dist/
pnpm astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
pnpm astro --help	Get help using the Astro CLI