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

This starter has minimal prerequisites and most of these will usually already be installed on your computer.

• Install Node.js
• Install git
• Install SQLite

Setting up your store SQLite

• Install the Medusa CLI

  npm install -g @medusajs/medusa
  yarn global add @medusajs/medusa
  

• Create a new Medusa project

  medusa new my-medusa-store
  

• Run your project

  cd my-medusa-store
  medusa develop
  

Your local Medusa server is now running on port 9000.

Setting up your store with docker and postgres

• Create a new Medusa project

  git clone https://https://github.com/medusajs/medusa-starter-default.git
  

• Update your medusa config:

  module.exports = {
  projectConfig: {
    redis_url: REDIS_URL,
    // For more production-like environment install PostgresQL
    database_url: DATABASE_URL,
    database_type: "postgres",
    // database_database: "./medusa-db.sql",
    // database_type: "sqlite",
    store_cors: STORE_CORS,
    admin_cors: ADMIN_CORS,
  },
  plugins,
  };
  

• Run your project

When running your project the first time docker compose should be run with the build flag to build your contianer locally:

  docker compose up --build

When running your project subsequent times you can run docker compose with no flags to spin up your local environment in seconds:

  docker compose up

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 4 Product Variants that all cost 19.50 EUR

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

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