medusa-starter

Medusa Starter Default

This repo provides the skeleton to get you started with using Medusa. Follow the steps below to get ready.

Prerequisites

• Have Postgresql installed and ensure it is running and initialized.

  • $ brew install postgresql
  • $ brew services start postgresql
  • $ createdb

• Install Redis and ensure that it is running.

  • $ brew install redis
  • $ brew services start redis

• Have Yarn and related packages installed globally:

  • Install yarn if needed $ brew install yarn
  • Install packages $ yarn global add npm @babel/core

Running Medusa

• Get your environment variables ready:

  $ mv .env.template .env
  

• Setup a Stripe account and add your API key and webhook secret to your .env

• Setup a Sendgrid account and add your API key to your .env

• Install all dependencies

  $ yarn
  

• Create a local postgres database using

  $ psql -h localhost -c 'create database "medusa-development";'
  

• Migrate and seed the database

  $ yarn seed
  

• Start the Medusa server:

  $ medusa develop
  

Your local Medusa server is now running on port 9000.

Try it out

curl -X GET localhost:9000/store/products | python -m json.tool

After the seed script has run you will have the following things in you database:

• a User with the email: admin@medusa-test.com and password: supersecret
• a Region called Default Region with the countries GB, DE, DK, SE, FR, ES, IT
• a Shipping Option called Standard Shipping which costs 10 EUR
• a Product called Cool Test Product with a Product Variant that costs 195 EUR

Visit docs.medusa-commerce.com for further guides.